Job overview
Heather Ward and Fern Ward (at the Airedale Centre for Mental Health) are looking for passionate and committed individuals to join our acute inpatient wards as Health Care Support Workers (HCSW).
Would you like to broaden your clinical experience, working in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver a wide range of care?
About us –
We are a provider of high-quality mental health, community and learning disability services across Bradford.
We work with individuals, their carers and our partners to ensure that people get the right care, in the right place with the right support. We share the common goal of becoming the leading provider of integrated care for people of all ages with mental or physical health needs.
Heather Ward is a female acute psychiatric ward, caring for those from the age of 18 to 65, who are experiencing acute mental health crisis.
Fern Ward is a male acute psychiatric ward, caring for those from the age of 18 to 65, who are experiencing acute mental health crisis.
About you -
You will need to be resilient, compassionate and dedicated to providing holistic care. Patient focused and driven to helping encourage recovery of our patients.
Main duties of the job
To provide generic care and planned interventions to the patients/clients within the Adult Mental Health Acute Care Service.
Provide care to patients to maintain their personal hygiene, physical health and psychological comfort ensuring that their privacy and dignity is always maintained.
Under the supervision of registered health care professionals assist the healthcare team with the provision of clinical care for a defined group of patients
Ensure patient safety is maintained and patient experience is positive by treating all patients, relatives and colleagues with respect, dignity, and courtesy in accordance with Trust values.
Takes leadership from Assistant Practitioner within a delegation framework for agreed tasks.
Closing Date: 31st May 2024
Shortlisting Date: 3rd June 2024
Interview Date: 10th and/or 11th June 2024
Benefits
You will be joining a Trust that values the health and wellbeing of its staff. Alongside a wide range of national staff benefits including discounts at Nandos, Domino’s and retailers, the Trust offers fast track access to physiotherapy, counselling, access to our Wellbeing Zone and childcare support services.
Excellent training and development opportunities from a band 2 to a band 3 Senior HCSW.
Working for our organisation
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
Additional cost of living payments for bands 1 – 7
Increase mileage rates for > 3500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for further details about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. NVQ2 training or equivalent experience.
2. Willing and able to undertake all Trust mandatory training requirements.
Desirable criteria
3. NVQ III in care or modules relevant to the area.
4. Willingness to undergo job development and training, undertaking minimum skill including English and Maths
Experience
Essential criteria
5. Working in a caring environment (professionally or at home), which includes Mental Health
6. Effective patient/client care skills, which includes effective communication.
Desirable criteria
7. Able to evidence working in a caring environment or worked in a voluntary position.
8. Experience of dealing with the public.
Bradford District Care Trust is an award-winning Trust that provides a range of innovative services that have been recognised as best practice nationally. As a provider of care for people of all ages who have mental and/or community health needs we are dedicated to providing a high-quality service, close to where people live and as much as possible tailored to an individual’s needs.
The Trust’s purpose is to create connected communities and help people to feel as healthy as they can be at every point in their lives and our vision is to connect people to the best quality care, when and where they need it and be a national role model as an employer and provide our staff with the best place to work.
Bradford has been awarded the coveted status of UK City of Culture 2025. The year is set to deliver more than 1000 new performances and events including 365 artist commissions, a series of major arts festivals as well as exciting national and international collaborations. Its themes will be rooted in the unique heritage and character of Bradford and will reveal the magic of the district that is held in its people, its ambition, and above all, its potential.
We would welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health and care needs.
We welcome people from all backgrounds and in particular Bradford District Care Trust is keen to reflect the population we serve, we are currently underrepresented in terms of black and minority ethnic staff. Applications are encouraged from these groups, but it must be stressed that selection will be solely on merit and in accordance with the Trust recruitment policy.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.