Employer: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Position: Care Support Worker

Grade:  NHS AfC: Band 3 will be paid at Band 2 until completion of the NHS Care Certificate

Salary:  Â£28,720 – £30,225 Per annum plus HCAS depending on allocation (Inner or Outer )

Job Type: Full-time, Part-time

Expected hours: 20 – 40 per week

Work location: Beckenham, Kent

FULL JOB DESCRIPTION

The Healthcare Support Worker is the ‘entry-level’ clinical role in a ward or other clinical setting. The job is designed to introduce staff, who have little or no experience of caring work but who demonstrate the values of the organisation in a clinical environment.

Healthcare Support Workers provide hands on personalised care to service users, always under supervision, and with the support of more senior staff.

The job is designed to help the post holder gain some clinical experience, under close and supportive supervision and to ensure our service users and carers receive care from people with the right values.

Our values and commitments:
What we need:
A positive and caring attitude

Enthusiasm

A determination to do a good job

Willingness to learn and undertake training

Every day, you will make a huge difference to the lives of the people we care for, delivering a high standard of care alongside your colleagues.

Working under the direct supervision and guidance of a Registered Nurse/ Senior Health Care Support Worker/ Assistant Practitioner/Nurse Associate to support the delivery of quality nursing care, contributing to the physical, psychological, social, recreational and spiritual care in a recovery focused way through therapeutic engagement and activities, and taking steps to address any issues that arise.

This role will require the post holder to provide hands on care in the prevention, management, and de-escalation of violence in in-patient settings, using approved techniques. The potholder(s) will be required to be physically fit to undertake be assessed as competent in Seni Lewis training to obtain the required skills in the prevention, management and de-escalation of violence.

Benefits :
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.

Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.

Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.

Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars.

Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites.

NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other Staff Benefits Include:
Counselling services
Wellbeing events
Long service awards
Cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
Childcare vouchers
Staff restaurants

Working under the direct supervision and guidance of a Registered Nurse/ Senior Health Care Support Worker/ Assistant Practitioner/Nurse Associate

Undertake activities to ensure that the fundamentals of care are met – nutrition, hydration, hygiene, comfort, emotional and social support.

Provide hands-on care to service users including:
Undertaking 1-1 engagement with service users in an honest, open and non- judgmental way.

Recognising and valuing service users as individuals, acknowledging the importance of maintaining the service user’s respect and dignity at all times and ensure that the care provided respects equality and diversity.

Escalating any concerns to a Registered Nurse.

Monitoring and recording service user clinical observations as directed by a Senior Clinician/Registered Nurse/ B4, such as physical observations and vital signs and escalating as appropriate any signs or symptoms of deterioration or that do not fulfil the personal parameters to the relevant professional.

Implementing the principles of ‘recovery’: encouraging and supporting service users to engage with healthy lifestyles, participate in community meetings and other activities of their interest.

See enclosed JD for details on main responsibilities.

Please note we do not offer sponsorship for these roles

Application Process

If you’re interested in this role, check out more information on the Official website and apply now!  

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