Band 3 Healthcare Assistant - Oleaster | Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Healthcare Assistant to work within the Oleaster on our dedicated Urgent Care Centre. The Urgent Care Centre will offer you a warm welcome and lots of opportunities to develop and enhance your skills and knowledge.

Your role will include assisting in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care under the guidance of the qualified nurse. You will be expected to have some working knowledge of local, national policies and legislation which govern current service provision.

You will assist in the development and provision of social and therapeutic activities for service users, and the promotion of effective therapeutic relationships, which will meet spirituality, equality and diversity needs in accordance with good practice and legislation.

The post holder will ensure effective communication pathways exist, acting as a role model to junior staff within their sphere of responsibility, and in a manner which positively promotes recovery in mental health. The Urgent Care Centre provides an intensive yet flexible team approach to support those individuals with the most complex, severe and enduring mental health conditions.

Within the Psychiatric Decision Unit Department, we emphasise person-centred, meaningful recovery, providing a unique and rewarding opportunity to work with people in the most challenging of circumstances. The Urgent Care Centre is commissioned to support service users who are detained under section 136/135 of the MHA for further assessment under the MHA. Depending on the outcome of the assessment, the team will formulate a discharge plan which includes admission to the psychiatric hospital.

Working within the Urgent Care Centre, the post holder will be expected to support the Senior Urgent Care Nurse (Bed Manager) in sourcing a psychiatric bed. This includes liaising with our contracted bed providers. The successful applicant will need to be able to work days, nights and unsocial hours as part of our 365 days a year, 24/7 service.

You will be offered regular management supervision by an identified management supervisor within the team, as well as the opportunity to attend monthly clinical supervision and regular team meetings. It is essential that you have a positive attitude, work well as part of a team, and demonstrate our Trust values of committed, compassionate and inclusive in all that you do in order to support us to deliver an exceptional service to our patients.

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community.

If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.

We are unable to support applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK). We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.