Health Care Support Worker - Older Adult In-patients (Night Shifts)

Job summary

Embark on a Rewarding Night-time Journey as a Health Care Support Worker! Join Our Night Team at Baswich Ward, St George's Hospital, Stafford!

Are you a Health Care Support Worker who prefers to work night shifts? Are you looking for a new opportunity to work in an organisation that will help you develop and achieve your goals to become the best you can be? If so, you're in luck. Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has an opportunity to join our Older Adults and Dementia Mental Health Baswich Ward at St Georges Hospital Stafford.

Baswich Ward is an assessment ward covering South Staffordshire. Sometimes we have patients from other areas. We provide care for males and females with possible or diagnosed organic mental illnesses such as dementia.

We are an award-winning Trust and have recently been ranked by HSJ awards as top in the Midlands for Mental Health, Learning and Development and Community Trusts as Best Place to work recommended by employees. When you come to work with us, we will help you reach your full potential. Not only that, we will actively seek opportunities to share the great things you are doing, with others locally, regionally, and nationally.

Main duties of the job

• Position is open to both full time and part time applicants
• To provide support and spend therapeutic time with an allocated group of service users with mental health needs.
• To promote service user's recovery through the delivery of high quality, outcome measured care and evidence-based interventions.
• To 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

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by:

• Supporting your career development and progression.
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccination every year
• Attractive relocation package
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.