Mental Healthcare Support Worker
Job overview
Do you want to be part of a team committed to providing high-quality recovery-focused care and treatment?
Do you want to make a difference to the lives of females experiencing a period of mental health illness?
This is an exciting time to join Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust (LPFT), in a forward-thinking team as a Senior Health Care Support Worker at Ash Villa Female Acute Treatment ward.
Due to the UKVI immigration changes, we are no longer able to offer sponsorship for this role. Please provide details of the visa type and expiry date in your application. Failure to provide the required information will result in your application being rejected.
The Role:
Ash Villa is a 15-bed acute treatment inpatient ward created as part of ambitious plans to expand and develop our services and patient offering in the local Lincolnshire area.
Ash Villa will provide high-quality, specialised treatment and therapy to women with mental health treatment needs who cannot be safely supported by a community-based service.
Main duties of the job
Under the supervision of a registered nurse, participate in the development, implementation, and maintenance of high-quality care within a ward environment, through involvement in the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care.
You will provide high quality, evidence-based, holistic care to patients in line with the Health Care Support Worker Code of Conduct and Trust policies. You will support senior colleagues to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care plans based upon individual patient needs.
The post holder will participate and facilitate creative and meaningful recovery-focused activities with individual patients and in groups.
The role may require the use of physical interventions to manage an individual whose behaviours may cause harm to themselves or others, and where other non-physical interventions, for example, communication, de-escalation, and problem-solving skills, have been unsuccessful.
Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce.This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.
We’re proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work within the policies, protocols and clinical procedures of Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Trust and to promote competent working practice within an integrated multi-disciplinary team.
To liaise with the nurses, and carry out assigned duties as a member of the multi- disciplinary mental health team.
To be prepared to work on own initiative as necessary and report to the Nurses.
Promote equality for all patients and understand their health needs.
Demonstrate an awareness of service user and carer perspectives on the provision of treatment and continuing care.
Participate regularly in clinical supervision sessions.
Liaise with representatives from associated voluntary and statutory organisations and facilitate good communication processes.
Attend in-service training and other study / refresher days to meet individual, statutory and service needs.
Participate in performance reviews.
To work with service users to promote independence, maximising daily living skills.
Assist in maintaining general and specific patient observations under the supervision of registered nursing staff.
Facilitate and participate in recreational and physical activities in the provision of health and social care to service users.
Demonstrate an understanding of the responsibilities in relation to patients’ property and valuables, respecting cultural values.
Always act in a manner as to promote and safeguard the interests and well-
being of patients.
Actively promote a responsible caring attitude at all times, treating all patients with dignity and respect.
Always act in a manner that ensures no patient is the subject of any form of abuse.
To report any incident which does not comply with Trust policy regarding incident reporting.
Participate in the escorting of patients as per the Unit procedures.
Accompany patients and participate, as needed, in recreational activities.
Maintain good order and cleanliness on the Unit
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Cavendish Care Certificate or willingness to work towards resourced by LPFT.
- NVQ Level 2 in Care or equivalent.
- NVQ level 3 in Promoting Independence or equivalent or working towards achievement.
- Certificate in Community Mental Health ECDL
Experience
Essential criteria- Previous relevant experience working with people with mental health problems at a HCSW grade or equivalent within a health and social care setting.
- Voluntary or working capacity with mental health service or equivalent
Skills
Essential criteria- A patient and empathic approach.
- Effective communication with service user, other memebers of the team and outside agenies.
- Clear accurate clinical note keeping.
- Skills related to Physical healthcare intervations such as urine analysis, phlebotomy,TPR and BP etc, recording findings and informing supervising nurse of results.
- IT skills.
- De-escalation Skills.
- Planning and organisation skills.
- Immediate life support Venepuncture