Healthcare Assistant

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for a Healthcare Assistant to join our team at Orchards Ward. A Mental Health Ward caring for the needs of 16 male patients with mental health disorders such as Dementia, Depression, Schizophrenia and others. Orchards Ward as part of the KMPT provides a 24-hour service, with a three-shift system in operation and all staff are expected to work the full rotation of days and nights.

You will join a multi-disciplinary team, working with older adults who have a wide range of mental and physical health needs. You will enjoy working at a challenging pace, and be self-motivated, proactive, flexible and enthusiastic. You will function as part of a team and have an interest in therapeutic engagement with the service users. Your approach must be person-centred, placing the patient at the centre of all decision-making.

Please note, that we are currently unable to offer sponsorship for Band 2 Healthcare Assistant/Support Worker roles as they do not meet the UK Visas and Immigration criteria

Main duties of the job

• Read, follow and implement patient's therapeutic care plans accurately and consistently
• Enable patients to achieve their maximum level of independence.
• Enabling patients to take responsibility for their health promotion including, mobility and activities of daily living and assisting where necessary.
• Identify factors that have a positive and negative affect on health and wellbeing and how it can be promoted and adverse effects prevented
• Enable patients to view health and wellbeing as a positive aspect of their lives
• Enable patients to be involved in activities and make their own decisions where possible about them. consistent with people's views and beliefs

About us

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We arerated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

Orchards Ward, Priority House

Hermitage Lane

Maidstone

ME16 9PH

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

Orchards Ward, Priority House

Hermitage Lane

Maidstone

ME16 9PH

Employer's website

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

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