This Healthcare Support Worker post sits on acute adult wards at Green Lane Hospital, run for Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, and splits between the Poppy and Bluebell areas. The work centres on supporting people in mental health crisis, helping with care planning, and monitoring physical health and vital signs. It covers a 20-bed acute ward and a 4-bed Place of Safety, with violence and aggression prevention training required. No visa sponsorship is offered, so the right to work must already be held.
What the job involves
- Deliver care and recovery interventions in the clinical area under indirect supervision of registered staff
- Build relationships with service users, recognise signs and symptoms of mental illness, and promote choice and independence
- Support collaborative care planning, CPA and risk assessment with service users, carers and the multidisciplinary team
- Monitor clinical vital signs and meet daily wellbeing and physical care needs, including fluids, nutrition and personal care
- Deliver psychosocially-informed one-to-one and group interventions
- Support service users with financial and accommodation issues
- Escort or accompany service users on planned leave on hospital grounds and in the community
- Keep the ward clean, safe and therapeutic, supporting environmental assessments
- Record interactions and clinical notes, and contribute to staff handovers
- Lead or link on core practice initiatives such as Essence of Care, Safewards and carer engagement, under registered staff supervision
- Apply a working understanding of the Mental Health Act 1983 and Mental Capacity Act 2005
- Support induction and peer support of junior, temporary and newly appointed healthcare support workers, and engage in reflective practice
What’s required
Qualifications
- Level 3 vocational qualification in mental health or health and social care, or willingness to work towards one
Experience
- Experience of working in a busy team
- Ability to use initiative at times of pressure
Skills & knowledge
- Understanding of how mental health issues affect individuals, families and communities
- Experience of using evidence-based approaches to reduce the impact of mental health issues
Checks & eligibility
- Right to work in the UK at time of application (no visa sponsorship)
Other
- Willingness to complete Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression training
What’s offered
- Training towards the NHS Care Certificate
- Level 3 Healthcare apprenticeship
- Comprehensive statutory and mandatory training programme
- Learning and development opportunities
- Staff wellbeing support
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
