Job role: Health care assistant
Company name: NHS jobs
Salary: £24,833.00 per year
Job reference: H9110-25-148
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About the job:
An opportunity has arisen for, enthusiastic and highly motivated Band 2 HCSW to join our team on our Mental Health Inpatient Unit based at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital. We provide person centred care for people suffering with significant mental health difficulties and associated challenging presentations. The position is available on our PICU (Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit). These are 1 time posts at 24 hours per week to cover maternity leave.
The successful candidate will be expected to work collaboratively with the qualified staff to ensure that a high standard of care is maintained across the unit, and be expected to demonstrate a genuine interest in this field of nursing, displaying excellent people skills such as communication. They will be expected to work as part of a team, ensuring the delivery of high quality person centred patient care.
Staff working within this environment are afforded the opportunity to experience diverse mental illnesses.
Main duties of the job
Develop communication skills in order to convey routine informationeffectively to patients, carers and other staff.
Observe and report the effects of all interventions to the Registered nurse.
Ensure effective communication with all members of the MultiDisciplinary Team, advocates and relatives.
Ensure all incidents which may compromise Health and Safety arereported in an appropriate and timely manner.
Support the delivery of a range of interventions required to supportservice users meeting their personal care needs ensuring safety,privacy and dignity is maintained at all times.
Observe the safety of service users at all times, Assist with safe and supportive levels of engagement of patientsdeemed to be at risk of self harmDevelop rapport based upon a working relationship which maintains appropriate boundaries at all times.
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn’t need to have skills in Welsh, we’ll consider it an advantage when short-listing candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see the ‘Croeso Candidate’ booklet below.
About us
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
* We listen, learn and improve
* We treat everyone with respect
* We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
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