Job Overview
Are you a current Mental Health or Learning Disabilities student nurse? We are recruiting to the Temporary Staffing Service and our existing students can now join the bank as an HCA internally. The Trust has an established Temporary Staffing Service that helps ensure we meet the needs of our service users.
This vacancy is only open to current Mental Health or Learning Disability Student Nurses who are currently on or have recently completed placement within our services. Applicants must be on placement within the Trust or have recently completed a placement within the Trust so that we can obtain a satisfactory reference from your TEWV practice placement mentor(s). Please ensure that the placement is listed on your application form and that your TEWV placement mentor is listed as one of your referees. You must also indicate the month and year of your student nurse cohort, expected year of completion of your nursing qualification and when your training was last updated. Failure to do this may result in your application being rejected. You must have the Right to Work in the UK. This role does not meet the eligibility criteria for sponsorship under any visa; it is a bank/zero hours contract and therefore the Trust cannot offer sponsorship for this role.
Main Duties of the Job
Supporting our Nursing teams within our inpatient services, you will help promote recovery for our service users. You will have excellent communication skills and will work directly with patients as part of a wider MDT. You will demonstrate empathy, compassion, understanding and patience, and work flexibly as and when needed.
Working for Our Organisation
The Trust is a strongly value-based, person-centred organisation that has taken a strategic approach to continued service improvement, the modernisation of clinical roles and the introduction of care pathways embedded within a functioning system of governance. The most important way we will get there is by living our values all of the time.
* Respect – listening, inclusive, working in partnership
* Compassion – kind, supporting, recognising and celebrating
* Responsibility – honest, learning, ambitious
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
This is a unique opportunity to fast track onto the bank, available only to existing students within TEWV, enabling you to work and gain valuable experience within Forensic Services, Learning Disability and Mental Health Services for Adults and Older People, Trust wide. You will be responsible for supporting nursing staff in meeting the needs of service users, working alongside our established workforce and delivering all aspects of care to promote choice and client independence.
Successful applicants will be required to complete a mandatory training programme within the first 8 weeks of commencement, providing all recruits with the necessary skills to work effectively and safely within our unique services. This training is approximately 8 days for HCAs, including five consecutive days of face‑to‑face training in Positive and Safe Care. Applicants must be able to commit to this prior to applying.
Bank workers are not regular employees and have no entitlement to guaranteed or continuous employment. Hours worked on the bank are not transferable to placement hours. You will also not be able to undertake bank work in the same location as your current placement.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential Criteria
* Key skills in literacy (Level 1) and numeracy (Level 1)
Desirable Criteria
* NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care
Experience
Desirable Criteria
* Previous experience of working with people with mental or social health needs
Skills & Knowledge
Essential Criteria
* Basic computer skills
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