Senior Healthcare Support Worker

Job overview

Would you like to become a Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker at The Meadows West Park Hospital, an inpatient ward for Older People (Epsom)

Based at Epsom, The Meadows is a single storey building in the grounds of the Noble Park housing development in the former West Park Hospital site. This is a 24/7 hospital service with 24 beds available for the care of people aged over 65 years who have dementia or organic mental ill-health (i.e. decreased function due to medical or physical disease, rather than a psychiatric illness).

There are three single sex wards, each with eight beds:

• One ward is for people with mental ill-health (functional, e.g bipolar or depression)
• Two wards are for people with dementia.

We are looking for a confident Healthcare Support Worker to join our team and work as a fully integrated member of the multidisciplinary team providing direct care to people using our services.

We aim to develop positive relationships with the people who use our services, and their families and carers, adopting a pragmatic and non-judgemental approach and encourage and support individuals to participate in ways which support their individual recovery journey.

As a band 3 Healthcare Support Worker, you will be contributing to meaningful care plans and risk management plans and deliver low intensity therapeutic interventions.

Main duties of the job

• Support delivery of planned care following bio-psycho-social assessments, practicing in a way that actively minimises dependency and promotes recovery
• Deliver services using a recovery and strengths approach where the needs of the individual, and their carers, are held as central and their involvement is proactively encouraged
• Supporting arrangements for carer assessments and referral to local authorities as required
• Responsible for managing their own workload to ensure the needs to the individuals who use our services are met taking the wider needs of the team into consideration.
• Plan own workload to ensure that care is provided in the most high quality and cost efficient manner, in line with appropriate policy and be able to prioritise and make adjustments as appropriate
• Ensure that interventions are planned in an integrated and co-ordinated manner particularly where dependent on other external agencies
• Support access of appropriate information and guidance around medication via internal and external sources, referring on to most appropriate agencies where necessarY
• Maintain up to date clinical records in a timely and accurate manner
• Ensure information is shared with key stakeholders and other agencies in a secure manner
• Work without direct supervision and take accountability for your own actions, working within the operational policies and service specifications of the team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for further information regards to job role and responsibilities.