Healthcare Support Worker

Job overview

We are seeking to recruit to an inpatient Healthcare support workers within John Howard Centre & Wolfson House.  This is an excellent opportunity for a healthcare support worker to come and work in a rewarding environment.

Moorgate is a Specialist service for male patients with Learning Disability and/or Autisim  situated in Medium Secure services.  Our mission is to provide safe, individualized and specialist care and treatment for detained in-patients with complex needs.

There maybe other roles available across the Forensic directorate and therefore you maybe considered for these other positions as a health care support worker.

Our main aims are to:

Supporting the in-patients wards during psychiatric emergencies.

Promoting a safe environment of care that safeguards and protects patients and staff against undue risk.

Facilitating a positive role for patients where open communication and opportunities for learning and decision-making are promoted

Maintaining the patients right to spend no more time than clinically necessary in a locked environment.

Provide support and clinical assistance to the other hospitals within the trust.

Provide support and liaise with the community mental health teams and other allied professionals

Main duties of the job

As a Band 3 Health Care support Worker, you will assist in the provision of outstanding recovery focused care as part of the nursing team and wider multi-disciplinary team.

Our expectation is that you will be a highly motivated and dynamic team member; who is able to demonstrate quality therapeutic interactions with service users who require good support for their high dependency and complex needs. You are also expected to be working within the recovery model aims to help people with mental health problems to look beyond mere survival and existence. Supporting and encouraging clients move forward, set new goals and do things and develop relationships that give their lives meaning. You will work closely with the occupational therapy and psychology teams to offer recovery focused individual and group work with service users.

You should also be able to reflect interactions through excellent documentation, and be able to develop effective lines of communication with members of the wider multidisciplinary team and other agencies with the support of the nursing team, and maintain effective team work. We will expect you to be highly resilient and resourceful, able to problem-solve, think on your feet and be able to bring a creative flavour to your work.

This post will require you to work a mixture of shift work (long days, Weekends and night shifts as well as Twilight shifts- Please look at advert for times).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.

Safety Intervention (SI) training is essential and a requirement of the job. You will be expected to pass all 5 days of the SI training and be able to implement the training on the ward participating in the emergency nursing team response.