Healthcare Support Worker - Forensic services

Wight Healthcare; Fareham; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Forensic lead payment £1401 pro rata

Job summary

Wight Healthcare is seeking Healthcare Support Workers to join our Forensic Inpatient Services across Hampshire. You will work within Ravenswood House (Fareham) and Southfield (Calmore, near Southampton), supporting adults with serious mental illness in secure inpatient settings.

You will be part of a close-knit team, receive training and develop skills in a challenging, rewarding environment, with opportunities to contribute to assessment, care and treatment plans while maintaining safety and

Job description

We are pleased to offer exciting and rewarding opportunities for compassionate and caring individuals to join our Forensic Inpatient Services across Hampshire as Healthcare Support Workers.

This role will offer you the opportunity to provide career-defining training and challenges; it will offer exposure to a unique and rewarding environment where you will be part of a close-knit team.

We have opportunities available at the below inpatient units:

• Ravenswood House (based in Fareham): a medium and low secure, forensic unit providing assessment, care and treatment for adult men with serious mental illness.
• Southfield (based in Calmore, Tatchbury Mount-near Southampton): a low secure, forensic mental health inpatient service for people with serious mental illness who are aged 18-65 years.

Find out more about our Forensic Services here: https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/our-services/a-z-list-of-services/specialist-and-forensic-mental-health (copy and paste the link in to your browser)

These roles benefit from an additional forensic lead payment of £1401 pro rata, per annum.