Job summary
Are you ready to join an organisation, which values its staff, patients and community? Visit our Recruitment Fair in Luton for Bank Healthcare Assistant Opportunities in Bedfordshire:
Date : 20/05/2024
Time : 09:00am - 1:00pm (Come prepared to be interviewed on the day)
Address : Charter House, Alma Street, Luton, LU1 2PJ
Role : Bank Healthcare Assistant
As a Trust, we value our staff and offer a wide range of benefits;
- NHS Discounts (show your ID at various Food, Drink, Health & Beaut & Shopping outlets)
- Learning and Development opportunities - CPD
Bank HCA Band 3
To actively participate in the assessment and care plan process, caring for both mental health and physical health needs and ensuring care is individualised and truly meets the needs of the service user.
Working with registered nurses and other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team to ensure defined care is implemented, that patients are actively involved in all aspects of their care and fully understand their care.
To work as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team implementing care plans, participating in CPA's ward reviews, Mental Health Review Tribunals and Managers Hearings ensuring that the Support Worker truly influences care.
To ensure that you promote creative and meaningful activities, both individually and in groups that promotes recovery.
Main duties of the job
- To take an active role in direct service user care
- Ensuring that a service user-centred multi-disciplinary approach to care is presen
- Record observations regarding assessment of need, including risk assessment
- Ensuring that all practices are in accordance with Trust policies and instructions provided by the registered nurse
- Work in conjunction with other health care professionals to provide therapeutic and meaningful activities for service users
- Promote anti-discriminatory practice
- As an associate nurse attend your service users CPA meetings and Managers hearings
- Work within clinical performance objectives at all times
- Knowledge of safeguard issues and reporting and escalating processes
- Ensure that the ward environment is pleasant, clean, comfortable and suitable for its use at all times liaising with other departments as necessary
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the job description attached for any further information on this vacancy and job details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the job description attached for any further information on this vacancy and job details.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to GCSE standard or equivalent
- Completed or the willingness to undertake Care certificate
Desirable
- GCSE Grade A-C in Maths & English or skills level 2 Maths & English or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Working in a care setting
Desirable
- Dealing with challenging situations
- Working with Mental Health Service Users
- Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
- Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Able to manage time to meet deadlines
- Ability to work autonomously
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Be able to respond with compassion and empathy
- Demonstrate an understanding of caring for people with mental health problems
- Demonstrate a degree of emotional intelligence and self-reflection
Desirable
- Demonstrate an understanding of the specialty
- Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities
- Ability to deal with non- routine and unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient contact
- Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional for expert help and advice
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to GCSE standard or equivalent
- Completed or the willingness to undertake Care certificate
Desirable
- GCSE Grade A-C in Maths & English or skills level 2 Maths & English or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Working in a care setting
Desirable
- Dealing with challenging situations
- Working with Mental Health Service Users
- Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
- Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Able to manage time to meet deadlines
- Ability to work autonomously
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Be able to respond with compassion and empathy
- Demonstrate an understanding of caring for people with mental health problems
- Demonstrate a degree of emotional intelligence and self-reflection
Desirable
- Demonstrate an understanding of the specialty
- Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities
- Ability to deal with non- routine and unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient contact
- Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional for expert help and advice
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
