Healthcare Assistant - Longreach

CORNWALL PARTNERSHIP NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Redruth; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Redruth is seeking an individual for a role focused on providing quality interventions and support for patients. Responsibilities include assisting in mental health care, engaging patients in meaningful activities, and supporting personal care tasks. The role requires effective communication and teamwork within a multi-disciplinary environment, with shift work including nights and weekends. Opportunities for professional development are offered.

Benefits

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Access to individual HARP portfolios

NHS Pension Scheme

Discounts from retailers

Qualifications

• Experience in providing 1:1 sessions and running groups.
• Ability to assist with personal care tasks in a hospital setting.
• Willingness to work shifts across a 24-hour clock including weekends.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of care needs under supervision.
• Evaluate care programmes by reporting to the clinical supervisor.
• Promote recovery through high-quality mental health care.

Skills

Communication in a sensitive manner

Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team

High-quality mental health care delivery

Job description

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

Our strategic themes include:

• Great Care: care based on what matters to people, care provided at home or close to home, improvement through learning, research and innovation, and prevention and alternatives to hospital.
• Great Organisation: buildings that support health and wellbeing, technology enabled care, care teams supported by responsive corporate services, and safe, efficient, effective and productive operations.
• Great People: a place people love to work and feel valued, living our values with staff, attracting, growing and developing talent, and leaders with compassion who continuously learn and listen.
• Great Partner: encouraging and enabling effective partnerships, joined-up community services, working with others to maximise workforce opportunities, and reducing our impact on the environment.

We are a flexible working friendly organisation and want to accommodate a flexible working arrangement that is best for us, our patients, and you. We also support flexibility around workplace locations.

The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may have contact with vulnerable service users. We encourage and support staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

The role is based at Longreach House, where we strive to give the best care every day for all patients who need our support. You will be responsible for providing quality interventions and support to our patients, including 1:1 sessions, running groups, helping patients access the community, engaging in meaningful activity, and supporting with personal care tasks in hospital.

You must be able to communicate in a sensitive manner and be an integral part of our multi-disciplinary team, which includes healthcare assistants, nurses, occupational therapists, social inclusion workers, clinical psychology, and psychiatry.

The post will involve working shifts across the 24-hour clock, including weekends and nights.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the delivery of care needs by carrying out assigned tasks involving direct care under the supervision of a registered nurse.
• Contributing to the evaluation of programmes of care by reporting to the clinical supervisor.
• Providing high-quality mental health care to service users to promote recovery.
• Assisting in service and good practice developments.

At Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, we prioritise the development of our people and offer career conversations, individual development plans, protected CPD time, and access to a dedicated central development fund.

We also offer a range of rewards and benefits, including health and wellbeing initiatives, free access to individual HARP portfolios, free DBS checks, discounts from retailers, and an NHS Pension Scheme.

If you are successful, you agree to Occupational Health accessing your health records to check the status of your inoculations and screening tests. Appointments are subject to full three-year satisfactory references.