Care Support Worker - Mental Health

Job summary

Job Title: Care Support Worker Mental Health

Trust Location: West Hertfordshire NHS Trust

Pay rates: Day: £10.42, Night/Saturday: £14.69, Sunday/Bank Holiday: £19.07

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Work the days you want to work

We are NHS Professionals (NHSP), working together to care for patients in the NHS. Providing you with the power to decide when, how, and where you want to work. Supporting your lifestyle and making you feel part of the team and community.

As a member, youll have fantastic benefits:

• Competitive pay rates work this week, get paid next week
• Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go access your My Bank shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
• Essential support when you need it 24/7 365 days Call us anytime
• Multi-locational - work across neighbouring Trusts
• First choice of shifts or placements at your Trust access before they are made available to agency
• Varied working options to suit your lifestyle access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or fixed term placements
• Training and development opportunities
• Build holiday allowance for every shift you work
• Stakeholder pension scheme available

Main duties of the job

About the Trust

West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust provides acute hospital-based and specialist healthcare services to around half a million people living in Hertfordshire, north London and further afield.

The Trust was the first hospital in Europe to treat patients with Puritan Bennett 980 ventilators, a type of ventilator that helps patients to breathe more naturally and recover more quickly.

Hertfordshire has the best of both worlds, surrounded by beautiful countryside but with good road and rail links to both London and Cambridge, as well as comprehensive bus services across the main towns (Hemel Hempstead, St. Albans and Watford).

Responsible for

1. Recognising the individuality of the patient and help to meet his or her social, emotional and intellectual needs
2. Will be involved in the delivery and coordination of ward activities
3. Ensuring that basic physical needs are met, such as adequate diet, hygiene, warmth, comfort and safety
4. Assisting in planned treatments in accordance with multi-disciplinary team approach

Qualification/experience:

• An NVQ Level 2 or above in Health & Social Care Qualification or Care Certificate Qualification that has been obtained within the NHS
• A minimum of 6 months experience if one of the above qualifications is obtain, if not a minimum of 12 months is required. Experience must be within an NHS or private setting such as Hospice, however Care Home experience is not accepted

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want