Job overview
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Band 2 – Health Care Support Worker
Are you a Health Care Support Worker looking for a new opportunity to work in an organisation that will help you develop and achieve your goals to become the best you can be? If so, you're in luck.
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has an opportunity to join our Adult Acute Mental Health Pine Ward at The Redwoods Centre Shrewsbury. Pine ward is a mixed gender adult inpatient facility of 15 beds which provides care and support patients of 18 years old upwards.
We are an award-winning team and when you come to work with us, we will help you reach your full potential. Not only that, we will actively seek opportunities to share the great things you are doing, with others locally, regionally, and nationally.
Main duties of the job
- To provide support, and spend therapeutic time with an allocated group of service users with mental health needs.
- To promote service user’s recovery through the delivery of high quality, outcome measured care and evidence based interventions.
- To assist Registered Professionals in the implementation and evaluation of individualised care plans
- Regularly report and effectively communicate service users’ health status and care aims in care records and verbal reports to Registered Professional Staff members and other members of the multi-disciplinary team, including while supporting section 136 assessments and ECT treatment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Check out the videos below showcasing why you should grow your career here with us at MPFT:
Why Work for Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube
Development and Progression Within Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube
What is it like to be a Healthcare Support Worker within Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube
We provide inpatient facilities for working age adults with acute mental health problems and we are looking for caring, compassionate individual to work within our acute service who are committed to providing high quality care and treatment to our patients. Working in an acute environment can be challenging, but with the right team, positive attitude and resilience we are rising to the challenge and reaping the reward of being able to support people during their most difficult times.
With you in our team, we will empower you to work innovatively, showing a commitment to providing compassionate care and a strong desire to improve the patient’s experience. You will be able to apply the philosophies of engagement, recovery and positive care in your work with your patients.
This role will require you to work in shift patterns covering 24/7.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as part of a team and delivering a customer focused service.
Desirable
- Experience of working with people with Mental Health needs as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of being a service user or carer
Qualifications
Essential
- Level 2 Diploma in Health and Social Care OR NVQ 2 in Health and Social Care with demonstrable evidence of numeracy and literacy skills (equivalent GCSE’s or Functional Skills)
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience as outlined below
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This advert is for Health Care Support Worker - Adult Mental Health Inpatients Acute Ward with Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust in Stafford, Midlands, England. It is listed as a Band 2 Healthcare support worker role. The advertised salary is £25,272 pa pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 10 Jul 2026.
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