Health Care Assistant

Job summary

We are very excited to be advertising this Band 2 Health Care Assistant post working with people with dementia. You will be working alongside nursing staff and consultant to aid with the overall day to day activities ensuring the care and safety of patients at our brand-new acute in-patient ward in Worthing. This is a particularly exciting time to be joining our team, as we have recently reorganised our West Sussex in-patient dementia services which are now all housed within our specialist unit; The Forget Me Not Unit in Worthing.

This is a challenging but hugely rewarding role with lots of progression available to the right person.

The post-holder will work as part of the dedicated MDT supporting men with dementia in our 10 bedded dementia ward. The successful candidate will join a friendly, highly-skilled, enthusiastic and supportive multi-disciplinary team. We will be taking a keen interest in helping you to develop the wide range of skills important to this role so experience is desirable but not essential. You will receive regular managerial and clinical supervision.

The ward is anticipated to open in July 2022 however any successful applicants who are ready to start before the opening date may be allocated an alternative ward within the Forget Me Not Unit during this period.

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Assistant, your main responsibilities will be to work with the multi-disciplinary team to establish and deliver a therapeutic programme of care for service users.

You will be required to communicate with patients, relatives and carers and assisting with clinical duties, including personal care and ensuring infection prevention and control standards are maintained.

You will also undertake personal care duties for service users in hospital, report patient's conditions to qualified staff and document care delivery in patients notes.

You will need to use your strong communication skills, attention to detail and motivation to provide quality care for service users.

To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID

About us

The Forget Me Not Unit aims to reduce distress caused to people with dementia or those at risk of dementia who need to be treated in and acute hospital bed. The unit provides a calm, dementia friendly environment with patients being cared for by staff who are competent to meet their needs.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

• NHS staff discounts to so many shops, restaurant and gyms
• Support in career development
• Care certificate completion

We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key survey results:

• 70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team
• 77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Forget Me Not Unit, Swandean

Arundel Road

Worthing

BN13 3EP

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Forget Me Not Unit, Swandean

Arundel Road

Worthing

BN13 3EP

Employer's website

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

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