Health Care Support Worker

Job summary

Due to the nature of the service this post is covering, we have a genuine occupational requirement for a male appointment (exempt under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 37.5 hour a week, Band 3 Health Care Support Worker to join our team in our Psychiatric intensive care unit.

PICU is an 6 bedded mixed gender mental health unit based within the Mental Health Unit, Royal Glamorgan Hospital. Our unit offers an opportunity for individuals to provide care and support to service users experiencing severe mental illness. The job will require you to work alongside and support registered nurses and clinician's in delivering a care planned approach to improve service users mental health.

We work collaboratively with patients as a multi disciplinary team in proving gold standard care and promoting mental health recovery. PICU is a challenging environment that allows for development opportunities and to work within a supportive team.

Candidates for this post require a compassionate and kind personality and the want to make a difference to others. If you are motivated, committed and experienced in caring for adults within a mental health setting please apply for the opportunity to be part of our well worked team at PICU.

Main duties of the job

To support the provision of Health Care to the people experiencing long term mental ill health in a rehabilitation in-patient setting.

The post holder will deliver specific components of the service users care plan as delegated by the registered nurse and will regularly be required to work without direct supervision.

Supervise junior members of staff providing advice and guidance.

• Work within a Multidisciplinary Team under the direction of a registered nurse.
• Deliver health care within the Care and Treatment framework
• Provide support to service users on an individual and on a group basis within the inpatient
• With support from Registered Nurses be responsible for and manage own workload and safety.
• Participate in supervision from Registered Nurses.

Actively participate in continuing professional development through the Knowledge Skills Framework.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post, English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one tea

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.