Amblescroft North Ward is a 20 bedded Functional Older Adult unit based in Salisbury.
This is an active, enjoyable and rewarding Band 3 Health Care Support Worker role within a team applying person centred assessment for people experiencing changes in needs due to their illness.
Working alongside colleagues from Psychology, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Community Mental Health Teams, you will be developing further a culture that puts the person’s feelings at the forefront of their care.
The person we are looking for must have a desire to develop their role in this area. Experience at working as a Health Care Support Worker is desirable as is older adults.
PLEASE READ: Right to Work in the UK This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.
Working closely with our multi disciplinary teams, supporting service users, you will receive training to complete the NHS Care Certificate and a Level 3 Healthcare apprenticeship.
The ward operates on a 24/7 shift basis and you will be required to work shifts including evenings, nights, weekends and Bank Holidays and will qualify for unsocial enhancements in addition to your basic pay.
As an NHS employee you will have access to a wide range of benefits and discounts, including the NHS pension scheme and a generous annual leave entitlement. Best of all you will have the reward of doing a job that really matters, with colleagues who care.
Please get in touch, we would love to hear from you.
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.
Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.
1. To deliver high quality care and recovery interventions for
service users within designated clinical areas, in collaboration
with, and under the indirect supervision of, registered care
staff.
These may include:
Supporting individuals with fluids and nutrition, physical
wellbeing, and personal care.
Assisting service users with financial or accommodation issues.
Escorting or accompanying service users for planned periods of
leave on hospital grounds and in the community facilitating
social inclusion.
Encouraging service users to talk about their experiences in
one-to-one or group discussions.
2. To help maintain a clean, well-organised, safe and therapeutic
environment that meets the needs of service users, carers and
colleagues, and to support registered care staff to perform
standardised environmental assessments to monitor and
improve the care setting.
3. To deliver psychosocially-informed one to one and group
interventions aiming to positively impact service users’
cognitive and emotional wellbeing.
4. To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. To assume lead or
link roles on core practice initiatives and priorities under the
supervision of registered staff. To integrate areas of personal
interest with clinical practice to enhance the diversity of the
team’s provision of care.
5. To practise planned care, and to directly participate in the
development of recovery-focused interventions that address
service users’ and carers’ needs and preferences. To proactively
review, record and assess the on-going impacts of such
interventions.
6. To participate in the on-going care planning and risk
assessment processes in collaboration with service users, their
carers, and other members of the care team and to contribute
to all aspects of clinical record keeping.
7. To maintain a basic working understanding of both the Mental
Health Act (1983) and Mental Capacity Act (2005), and any
other relevant legislation, as required by mandatory and
statutory training (MaST).
8. To adhere to AWP’s Code of Conduct for unregistered
practitioners; promoting and embedding it through the delivery
of peer support and supervision to junior, temporary and newly
appointed Health Care Support Workers.
9. To observe and record interactions with service users and
carers both verbally and in writing via clinical records and staff
handovers.
10. To deliver a wide range of fundamental care interventions
using evidence based clinical tools, to monitor and improve
physical health and personal wellbeing and to model a high
standard of dignity, respect and candour.
11. To engage in reflective practice to maintain and promote
ongoing clinical practice.
12. To promote and enhance a positive learning culture, being
proactive in the induction, orientation and support of junior,
temporary and newly appointed Health Care Support Workers,
seeking to embed core care values into practice.
