Health Care Support Worker - Older Adult Mental Health Inpatients

Job summary

Join our team as a Healthcare Support Worker based St George's Hospital, Stafford and start your rewarding career with us!

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is offering an exciting development opportunity to join our team as a Band 2 Healthcare Support Worker and will complete a Development Programme. Upon completion of the programme you will progress to a Band 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker.

Older Adults Mental Health Bromley Ward is an assessment ward covering South Staffordshire. We provide care for individuals over 65 years presenting with a functional mental health conditions or early stages of dementia.

We are looking for caring, compassionate individual to work within our older adult inpatient team who are committed to providing high quality care and treatment to our patients. Working in an older adult environment can be challenging, but with the right team, positive attitude, and resilience we are rising to the challenge and reaping the reward of being able to support people during their most challenging times.

With you in our team, we will empower you to work innovatively, showing a commitment to providing compassionate care and a strong desire to improve the patient's experience.

If you are currently working as a Band 3 in a mental health setting within an NHS organisation we also encourage you to apply, please include reference to this in your supporting statement. Should you be successful we are offer a salary match.

Main duties of the job

• To provide support and spend therapeutic time with an allocated group of service users with mental health needs.
• To support service users to maximise their quality of life and provide a positive patient experience 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 and 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 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 vaccinations every year
• 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.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.