Healthcare Support Worker
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Healthcare Support Worker to join us at Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital under the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust.
Responsibilities
* Monitor physical and mental health outcomes of those attending the clinic.
* Provide and support physical health assessments and relevant physical health interventions to improve service users' physical health and overall well‑being.
* Primary focus on service users with longer‑term mental health needs, primarily with severe mental health problems such as psychosis.
* Support and work alongside registered mental health nurses, registered general nurses, pharmacy technicians and pharmacists in the clinic team.
* Work with service users and relevant staff to develop mental and physical health care plans and monitor health and social outcomes of clinic clients.
* Promote positive physical and mental health to service users, carers, families and staff.
* Familiar with and able to use medical devices, accurately record readings and understand normal and abnormal parameters.
* Take blood as part of physical health monitoring.
* Complete clinical data and information on clinical IT systems.
* Support service users to think more about their health needs and identify their own health goals, and support monitoring goals identified with other members of the team.
Qualifications
Post holder must hold a full, valid UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle for business purposes, unless a disability is defined by the Equality Act 2010.
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