Health Care Assistant - Wakefield Inspiring Recovery

Turning Point is a leading Social Enterprise which supports people with a wide range of complex needs across Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, Substance Use and Public Health. We are currently recruiting for a Health Care Assistant to work in our Integrated Substance Use Service, where you’ll have the chance to make a real difference to the lives of the people we support who are experiencing difficulties from drugs and alcohol usage.

As a Health Care Assistant, you will make a real difference to people’s lives. You will be working within the clinical team supporting wellbeing clinics, ambulatory/community detoxifications, and undertaking basic observations with our service users. The day-to-day duties of a Health Care Assistant consist of:

• Supporting and undertaking substance use interventions and clinical procedures, e.g., participating in triage assessments and screenings, urine analysis, healthy living assessments, physical observations, ECG recording.
• Ensuring appropriate entries are made on patients' computerised medical records.
• Supporting stock usage and stock control management.
• Monitoring fridge temperatures and fridge logs and taking action when appropriate.
• Recording in Controlled Drugs (CDs) registers and taking appropriate action when required.
• Maintaining equipment and dispensing areas and ensuring they are kept in a clean and orderly manner.
• Supporting the provision of opiate and alcohol detoxifications, undertaking physical detox observations including BP.
• Supporting nurse-led and GP clinics.

We will develop and support you to have the necessary skills to undertake this role. You will partake in professional supervision and through our excellent governance structures be a part of our learning environment supporting, promoting and delivering best practice for our service users.

The Ideal Candidate:

• NVQ Level 2 in Care or equivalent.
• Proven verbal and written communications that can be modified to different situations.
• Collaborative team working skills.
• Ability to deliver against agreed goals, targets and outcomes.
• Substance use knowledge.
• Demonstrable skills and knowledge in assessing risk presented by clients to themselves and others.
• Harm reduction, suicide and self-harm awareness.
• Wide and flexible range of client interventions.
• Management of incidents of a violent or aggressive nature.

As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer. We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support.

What Benefits Will I Receive?

We know reward looks different to each person and so whether it’s ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career – we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package that includes:

• 25 days’ paid holiday a year + Bank Holidays, increasing with each year of service up to 27 days + Bank Holidays. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

Salary: Starting salary £25,870 with annual pay progression up to £30,265.