Healthcare Assistant

Florin Chilian; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Healthcare Assistant in Maidstone. You'll support a diverse group of patients with mental health challenges, ensuring their care and independence. This role offers a dynamic, supportive environment within a multi-disciplinary team focused on exceptional patient outcomes.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Interest in therapeutic engagement with service users.
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Implement patient's therapeutic care plans accurately.
• Enable patients to achieve independence.
• Identify health factors impacting wellbeing.

Skills

Self-motivation

Flexibility

Teamwork

Person-centred care

Job description

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An opportunity has arisen for a Healthcare Assistant to join our team at Ruby Ward. A Mental Health Ward caring for the needs of 16 female patients with mental health disorders such as Dementia, Depression, Schizophrenia and others . Ruby Ward as part of the KMPT provides a 24-hour service, with a three-shift system in operation and all staff are expected to work the full rotation of days and nights.

You will join a multi-disciplinary team, working with older adults who have a wide range of mental and physical health needs. You will enjoy working at a challenging pace, and be self-motivated, proactive, flexible and enthusiastic. You will function as part of a team and have an interest in therapeutic engagement with the service users. Your approach must be person-centred, placing the patient at the centre of all decision-making.

Read, follow and implement patient's therapeutic care plans accurately and consistently

Enable patients to achieve their maximum level of independence.

Enabling patients to take responsibility for their health promotion including, mobility and activities of daily living and assisting where necessary.

Identify factors that have a positive and negative affect on health and wellbeing and how it can be promoted and adverse effects prevented

Enable patients to view health and wellbeing as a positive aspect of their lives

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day

We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the future

To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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Please refer to the attached job description below for full details and main responsibilities of the role.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals

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