Bank Mental Healthcare Assistant

Job overview

Band 3 Bank Mental Health Care Assistant

Are you caring, considerate, can work under pressure and have a passion to support a patient when they are at the most vulnerable?

If you have answered yes and are an experienced CA that holds a Frimley NHS Trust Health Care Certificate, currently on our bank or substantive care assistant, then we would like to hear from you.

We have an opportunity for you to apply to have a bank posting as a MHCA which will have paid training wrapped around this (x2 training days will be paid at current Band 2 bank rates). On successful training completion you will then be able to pick up bank shifts at MHCA B3 level alongside your substantive position or bank CA Band 2 shifts. This is open for the first x100 current band 2 CA workers to apply for in this application window period. Should we receive this number of applicants before the closing date, we have the right to close the advert. Please apply and submit your application early to avoid disappointment!

The Band 3 Bank Mental Health Care Assistant role supports and cares for patients with various mental health conditions through close engagement and observation. This bank worker role will require experience of delivering the CA role to high standard and experience in de-escalating patients through excellent communicational skills. Although this role is focussed on the mental health support of enhanced care to the patient group this role will still involve providing all personal care as required for the patient e.g., toileting, feeding, hygiene needs and taking vital signs. These roles are to ensure we have the appropriate level of supervision and observation in place for those patients who require enhanced care observation. These circumstances may be due to the following examples (This list is not exhaustive).

• the patient is acutely physically or mentally ill
• the patient may be likely to wander and/or abscond,
• the patient may be confused, at risk of falls or at risk of self-harm.
• the patient may be acutely ill and/or requiring frequent observations.
• the patient may have expressed suicidal ideation

Main duties of the job

Main Duties

• To undertake enhanced care duties for our patients as guided by their care plan and patient enhanced care risk assessment. Unsupervised assigned tasks within the ward/clinical team and report the outcomes to a qualified nurse.
• Assist in the provision of care both through verbal de-escalation skills and wider conversational communicational skills
• To provide support, where appropriate, to relatives and carers as required
• To support the qualified nurses and be directed and supervised by them to undertake assigned enhanced care tasks.
• Develop and maintain a good working relationship with patients during your shift and to always ensure patient safety

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information relating to the role, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification

Please note we are not able to accept applications, if you do not hold the Frimley Health NHS, Health Care Assistance Certificate.