Health Care Assistant - Band 3 (Nuneaton) Nuneaton, England
Job description
Health Care Assistant Band 3 - The Lodge, Bramcote, Nuneaton
The post holder will be required to deliver needs led flexible day service in the local community supporting a service users with a learning disability, autism, behavioural difficulties and additional health needs.
The Lodge provides day service opportunities for adults with a learning disability and complex health needs.
Please note Trust interviews are currently taking place through Microsoft Teams, this can be downloaded either through the App Store or Google Play for use on your phone/tablet.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
The aim is to deliver a quality service to each service user through activities that enable service users to grow and develop. This will be carried out using meaningful and valued work, educational facilities, therapeutic goals and a wide range of leisure activities in the local community.
The post holder will be required to participate in assessment, training, instruction and evaluation and will be responsible for carry out and facilitating service users individual plans, to develop a professional service which fulfils overall day service aims.
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support group
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Essential Requirements:
Applicants must have experience of working in a care setting with service users with a learning disability.
Car owner / driver essential.
You must have patience, good interpersonal skills and consider clients’ needs to be your first priority.
NVQ in health and Social Care or equivalent.
Trust Values:
Compassion in Action- We listen, are respectful and respond with empathy, humanity and kindness to the emotions and needs of our patients, service users and carers.
Respect for Everyone- We provide person-centred care and treat everyone with dignity and compassion at all times. We will see each person as unique and valuable. We respect the contribution everyone makes.
Seeking Excellence- We work in partnership with patients, service users and carers to agree and achieve the best possible outcomes.
Working Together- We put patients at the centre of everything we do. We communicate with and involve patients, service users, families, carers, and the communities we serve and respond to their feedback.
