Healthcare Support Worker
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership TrustAlready thinking ahead to interview?
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Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Healthcare Support Worker to join us at Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital.
This comes at a time of transformation in mental health services under the community mental health framework.
Our main focus is to collaboratively work with service users to promote engagement and to facilitate an optimum level of independence and self-management.
Our expectation is that you will endeavour to establish therapeutic relationships within which to address recovery goals in order to help service users to gain access to a range of resources and services to facilitate involvement and connection with the local community.
Main duties of the job
- Monitor physical health and mental health outcomes of those attending the clinic.
- To provide and support physical health assessments, and relevant physical health interventions to support service users with mental conditions to improve their physical health and overall well-being.
- Primary focus on service users with longer term mental health needs, primarily with severe mental health problems such as psychosis.
- To support and work alongside registered mental health nurses, registered general nurses, pharmacy technicians and pharmacist in the clinic team.
- To work with service users and relevant staff to develop mental and physical health care plans and monitor health and social outcomes of clinic clients.
- To promote positive physical and mental health to service users, carers, families and staff.
- To be familiar with and able to use medical devices and to be able to accurately record readings and have an understanding of normal abnormal parameters.
- To be take blood as part of physical health monitoring.
- To take part in regular completing of clinical data and information. data on clinical IT systems.
- To support service users to think more about their health needs and identify their own health goals, and to support monitoring goals identified with other members of the team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work as part of the Intra Muscular Injection (depot medication) clinic and Clozapine clinic team and to safely monitor the health and treatment of clients attending the clinics in Sittingbourne and the Isle of Sheppey.
- Monitor physical health and mental health outcomes of those attending the clinic.
- To provide and support physical health assessments, and relevant physical health interventions to support service users with mental conditions to improve their physical health and overall well-being.
Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)