Health Care Support Worker – Older Adult Mental Health Inpatients
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Join our team as a Healthcare Support Worker based at St George's Hospital, Stafford and start your rewarding career with us! Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is offering an exciting development opportunity to join our team as a Band 2 Healthcare Support Worker and complete a Development Programme. Upon completion of the programme, you will progress to a Band 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker.
Older Adults Mental Health Bromley Ward is an assessment ward covering South Staffordshire. We provide care for individuals over 65 years presenting with a functional mental health condition or early stages of dementia.
We are looking for caring, compassionate individuals to work within our older adult inpatient team who are committed to providing high quality care and treatment to our patients. Working in an older adult environment can be challenging, but with the right team, positive attitude, and resilience we rise to the challenge and reap the reward of supporting people during their most challenging times.
If you are currently working as a Band 3 in a mental health setting within an NHS organisation, we also encourage you to apply. Please include a reference to this in your supporting statement. Should you be successful we are offering a salary match.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide support and spend therapeutic time with an allocated group of service users with mental health needs.
* Support service users to maximise their quality of life and provide a positive patient experience through the delivery of high quality, outcome‑measured care and evidence‑based interventions.
* Assist Registered Professionals in the implementation and evaluation of individualised care plans.
* Regularly report and effectively communicate service users’ health status and care aims in care records and verbal reports to Registered Professional Staff members and other members of the multi‑disciplinary team, including while supporting section 136 assessments and ECT treatment.
Additional Information
We offer great career development for both clinical and non‑clinical roles, with ongoing training and support to help you learn and grow. Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.
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