Job summary
- Main area
- Acute Care Group - Inpatient Rehabilitation
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-AC0577
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Littlebrook Hospital, Dartford
- Town
- Dartford
- Salary
- £20,330 - £21,777 per annum inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Health Care Assistant
Band 3
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
There is an exciting permanent opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Healthcare Worker (full-time) to join our experienced multi-disciplinary team on Pinewood ward, Littlebrook Hospital. Pinewood ward is a 16 bedded Male Ward in Littlebrook Hospital, Dartford.
Under the guidance and supervision of the team, you will deliver an effective and competent level of care to adults with Acute mental health needs. You will be involved in assisting patients in their day-to-day activities, supporting them to maintain and develop skills towards independence, and continue their recovery.
This post will involve shift working between to cover 24 hours, 7 days a week.
Main duties of the job
The post is suitable for non-registered support staff, with some prior experience working with adults with mental health difficulties.
Support the MDT by:
Offering appropriate support and advice to the patients in our care, and accurately record all care given as required onto RiO and validating own entries.
Provide physical health care & physical health checks as required or instructed, documenting the physical health checks on the modified early warning scoring system (MEWS) chart and reporting changes to the nurse in charge of the shift.
Supporting and carrying out patient therapeutic observation checks as required and instructed.
Escorting Patients to attend hospital appointments and Section 17 leave if requested.
Taking the lead in a specific area of work for the ward, e.g. Wellbeing, Health & Safety or Patient Activity.
Undertaking all relevant training as directed and participate in regular management/clinical supervision and appraisal.
Working a full range of shifts covering a 24 hour period, including twilight and night shifts. You may also be required, at times, to work at other Trust sites.
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Healthcare Workers are a key member of the multidisciplinary care team and will have continuing responsibility to:
- Effectively establish a therapeutic relationship with service users and their relatives/carers.
- Support individual risk assessment and management plans in line with service and Trust policy.
- Consistently delivering a patient focused service, which promotes optimum independence.
- Providing and receiving routine information orally, in writing or electronically to inform work colleagues, patients, clients, carers, the public or other external contacts.
- Offering appropriate support and advice to patients and their carers.
- Awareness of different challenging situations where communication needs to be adapted to the needs of the individual.
- Enabling patients to maintain and improve their independence by promoting and facilitating therapeutic activity.
- Undertaking all relevant training as directed and participating in regular management/clinical supervision and appraisal.
Please see job description for full details.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good general education, competent in literacy and numeracy
- NVQ or equivalent in a relevant subject (e.g. Health and Social Care) or be prepared to work towards this
Desirable criteria
- Recovery Star Training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with individuals with complex mental health problems
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a community mental health setting
- Experience of implementing rehabilitation plans
- Experience of individual and group work
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- An awareness of enduring mental health disorders
- A basic understanding of the Recovery Model
- An awareness of the impact of mental health needs on clients, families and carers
- An ability to form rapport with individuals and groups
- An ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism at all times, even in challenging/complex situations
- Ability to work autonomously and cooperatively as part of an interdisciplinary team, showing an awareness of team dynamics
- Ability to communicate information using a variety of mediums
- Basic awareness of clinical governance
- Effective organisational/planning and decision making skills
- Sound knowledge and practice of IT skills
- Willingness to work flexibly
Desirable criteria
- An awareness of social activities and amenities within the local community
- Knowledge of benefits and employment systems
- Awareness of tenancy issues
- Basic health and safety awareness
- A basic understanding of the Mental Health Act
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jumy Onih
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01322622054
- Additional information
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