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Healthcare Support Worker (Older Adult Ward)

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
This job is closed to applications

Location
Salary
£24,169 per annum
Profession
Healthcare support worker
Grade
Band 2
Deadline
07 May 2025
Contract Type
Permanent: Various shift patterns covering 24/7.
Posted Date
23 Apr 2025

Job overview

We are delighted to offer an opportunity for a Health Care Support Worker to join our Mental Health In-patient Older Adult Ward based on Oak Ward, The Redwoods Centre, Shrewsbury.

We are looking for individuals who will provide high quality care and treatment to our patients. Oak Ward is an assessment ward mainly covering Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin. Sometimes we have patients from other areas. We have 16 beds and provide care for males and females with possible or diagnosed organic mental illnesses such as dementia. We do also provide care for older adults with a functional mental health condition.

Your career with us will be enjoyable and rewarding as you develop specialist skills and make a real difference to the lives of our service users.

This post is for a band 2 HCSW. There is opportunity to complete the uplift competencies and progress to a band 3 Senior Health Care Support worker on successful completion of these.

This role will require you to work shift patterns covering 24/7

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Support Worker on our Mental Health wards, you will promote service user’s recovery through the delivery of high quality, outcome measured care and evidence-based interventions.

As part of this role, you will be expected to

  • Provide support and spend therapeutic time with an allocated group of service users with mental health needs.
  • 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

For further details regarding this role please see attached the Job Description and Person Specification.

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