Senior Healthcare Worker | Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Maidstone is seeking a Healthcare Worker to join their dynamic team. In this role, you will deliver competent care per patients' care plans and supervise band 2 healthcare workers. Ideal candidates possess strong organisation skills and a compassionate nature. You'll work in a rewarding, challenging environment, making a significant difference to patient recovery. The role supports a multidisciplinary team with a focus on promoting patient independence and a healthy environment.

Qualifications

• Delivers effective care as per patient care plan.
• Supervises care provided by band 2 healthcare workers.
• Records accurately all care given.

Responsibilities

• Support multidisciplinary team in patient care.
• Promotes independence and healthy environment.
• Assists patients in daily living skills.

Skills

Excellent organisation skills

Ability to use initiative

Kindness and compassion

Job description

Overview

It’s an exciting time to join our dynamic and innovative team. Do you want to develop your skills, with the backing of a well-developed team and make a difference to the recovery of our patients? If the answer is yes, we want you to join us!

The Trevor Gibbens Unit is a medium secure inpatient service for forensic services serving the community of Kent and Medway. We specialise in the rehabilitation and treatment of males & females with complex mental health needs, who require care in a medium secure setting, in response to offending, risky and/or challenging behaviours. This can be a challenging, yet rewarding environment and requires excellent organisation skills and the ability to use your initiative. If you are enthusiastic about making a difference and capable of providing positive challenge to the status quo in the interest of service and workforce development, then we want to hear from you.

The Healthcare Worker is a key member of the multidisciplinary care team and will have continuing responsibility as follows:

• Under limited supervision from a senior associate worker, qualified nurse, occupational therapist or the nurse in charge, deliver an effective and competent level of care, which is determined by the patient’s care plan.
• Supervise the care given by band 2 healthcare workers.
• Be fully aware of the needs of patients over a 24hr span of care.

Support the work of the multidisciplinary team

• Consistently delivering a patient focused service, which promotes optimum independence.
• Offering appropriate support and advice to the patients.
• Recording accurately all care given as required.
• Enable patients to maintain and improve their independence by promoting active involvement in the therapeutic activity programme.
• Noting and reporting accurately any care given and/or information required by the nurse in charge.
• Give physical care as required or instructed.
• Promote patient’s appearance and personal hygiene by offering support/advice in self care and ensuring that suitable toiletries are available.
• Promote a healthy, safe and secure environment by adhering to Trust statutory health and safety requirements and maintain confidentiality of information at all times in compliance with the Trust Policies.
• Assist patients to maintain a clean and healthy ward environment and assist them in all aspects of daily living skills as required.

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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This advert closes on Thursday 18 Dec 2025