Parklands Hospital - Health Care Support Worker

Job summary

Parklands Hospital are recruiting for Healthcare Support Workers for our 5 Mental Health Inpatient Wards. There is an expectation to work unsocial hours & previous experience is desired but not essential, full training will be provided.

Please see details below of our wards:

*Elmwood Ward - A 17 bed Organic Dementia ward. We offer assessment & nursing care to vulnerable adults. We are known to manage complex challenging behaviours leading to a safe discharge. For further info, please contact Yvonne Banda on 01256 376441.

*Beechwood Ward - An 18 bed Older Person's Acute Admission Ward. We promote least restrictive practice & are a very experienced team. For further info, please contact Elaine Comez on 01256 376432.

*Hazel Ward - PICU - A 10 bed Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit for male service users of working age. We aim to provide a service to people who are detained under the Mental Health Act. For further info, please contact Charlotte Dodd on 01256 376536.

*Cherry Ward - A 16 bed female only ward, with a further 2 MoD speciality beds, for patients with acute mental health needs. For further info, please contact Clare Thomas on 01256 303070.

*Juniper Ward - An 18 bed male only ward with a further 6 MoD speciality beds. We hold a morning meeting with our patients to plan the day & address any challenges. We close the day with Tea and Toast which is an evening reflection group. For more info, please contact Jessamy Vincent on 01256 376372.

Main duties of the job

This role will be supported by our Health Care Support Worker Lead role to support a personalised development plan for our unqualified staff. You will have access to training to enable you to progress in your chosen field. Alongside this Parklands is undergoing to skill mix review to ensure we are able to truly provide a therapeutic environment for our patients and their families.

Our Trust vision is to deliver "world class treatment and care, together" with our service uses, their families and our partners in health and care. We have established an ambitious programme of transformation to support the improvements we need to make and create a needs based, holistic approach to physical and mental wellbeing, treatment and recovery for our patients and resilience support for carers and families.

Our local vision is accredited services that will deliver responsive, evidence based recovery focused care for those in mental health crisis in our inpatient Unit at Parklands, Basingstoke. Parklands has 64 beds in 3 wards (increasing to 82 beds in July 2021) for adults and older people and includes a 10 bedded PICU.

Our staff are our most valuable asset; and excellent, well trained and motivated staff will help us deliver this transformation, creating a culture of compassion, collaboration and continuous improvement. Our values remain the strong drivers of our culture.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Parklands Hospital

Aldermaston Road

Basingstoke

Hampshire

RG24 9RH

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Parklands Hospital

Aldermaston Road

Basingstoke

Hampshire

RG24 9RH

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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