Main area Mental Health Grade Band 2 Contract 1 year (Fixed term / secondment for 1 year due to funding) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (x3 12 hour shifts including nights and weekends) Job ref 110-ACS174-0725
Employer Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Employer type NHS Site Royal Glamorgan Hospital Town Llantrisant Salary £23,970 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 06/07/2025 23:59
Health Care Support Worker Band 2 We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given toapplications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview 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 37.5 hours per week.
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 information
effectively 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 Multi
Disciplinary Team, advocates and relatives.
Ensure all incidents which may compromise Health and Safety are
reported in an appropriate and timely manner.
Support the delivery of a range of interventions required to support
service 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 patients
deemed to be at risk of self harm
Develop 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.
Working for our organisation 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
This post is fixed term/secondment for 1 year due to funding. If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
Person specification Qualifications NVQ level 2 in Health and Social Care or willingness to work towards
Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification
Skills Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification
Welsh language Speaking/Listening Skills at Level 3 or above
Experience Experience in a mental health setting
Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification
To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.
Employer certification / accreditation badges 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.
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