Senior Healthcare Support Worker

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Lincoln; Presencial; GBP 24.000 - 30.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Early access to Psychological TherapU

Salary sacrifice schemes

Car leasing scheme

Free eye tests

Discounts on retailers and restaurants

Descripción de la vacante

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Healthcare Support Worker for the Francis Willis Unit, Lincolnshire. The role involves delivering compassionate care to adults with severe mental illness in a low secure setting and working within a multi-disciplinary team.

Applicants must be able to work unsociable hours, including nights and weekends. Right to work in the UK is required, with sponsorship not available.

Formación

• Experience delivering care to adults with mental health issues in a health/social care setting.
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team in a forensic/low-secure environment.
• Willingness to work unsociable hours including nights and weekends.

Responsabilidades

• Provide high standards of compassionate care on Francis Willis Unit.
• Work within 24-hour inpatient service with shift patterns including nights.
• Demonstrate the Trust's values and promote patient safety and well-being.

Conocimientos

Nursing assistance experience

Mental health care

De-escalation skills

Communication with team

Clinical note keeping

Phlebotomy basics

Venepuncture

Educación

Cavendish Care Certificate

NVQ Level 2 in Care

NVQ Level 3 in Promoting Independence

Certificate in Community Mental Health

ECDL

Descripción del empleo

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Healthcare Support Worker

The closing date is 01 November 2026

Francis Willis Unit has a new and exciting opportunity for a keen, enthusiastic and Senior Healthcare Support Worker who holds pride in providing outstanding and compassionate care towards patients within out service. We work within a multi-disciplinary team who aims to provide care for patients who have severe and enduring mental illness alongside a forensic history. We work collaboratively to uphold the trust's purpose, vision and values to enable to best quality care for our patients.

Francis Willis Unit is the only low secure unit within Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust. It is a 15-bedded male-only low secure unit supporting patients who have a forensic history. The ward is for adults between the ages of 18-65 who are experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties.

Previous applicants need not apply

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK - sponsorship is not available. Please provide details of the visa type and expiry date in your application. Failure to provide the required information will result in your application being rejected.

Main duties of the job

Applications are invited from highly motivated and dynamic candidates who have a 'can do' attitude to help deliver the Trusts vision and values. This is an exciting, challenging and opportunistic role which will afford the successful candidate to work as part of a supportive team that is focused on delivering high standards of care.

We offer a 24-hour service within our inpatient facilities therefore successful candidates will be required to work unsociable hours, inclusive of nights, weekends, public holidays and shift patterns.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy

Competitive annual leave allowance

Car leasing scheme

Free eye tests

Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme

Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Person Specification

Experience

• Previous relevant experience working with people with mental health problems at a nursing assistant grade or equivalent within a health and social care setting
• Voluntary or working capacity with mental health service or equivalent

Qualifications

• Cavendish Care Certificate or willingness to work towards resourced by LPFT
• NVQ Level 2 in Care or equivalent
• NVQ level 3 in Promoting Independence or equivalent or working towards achievement
• Certificate in Community Mental Health
• ECDL

Skills

• Ability to undertake Reducing and Restrictive Practice (RRP)
• A patient and empathic approach
• Effective communication with service user, other members of the team and outside agencies
• Clear accurate clinical note keeping
• Skills related to Physical healthcare interventions such as urine analysis, phlebotomy, TPR and BP etc, recording findings and informing supervising nurse of results
• De-escalation Skills
• Planning and organisation skills
• Venepuncture

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Francis Willis Unit, Lincoln County Hospital

Francis Willis Unit, Lincoln County Hospital