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We are holding a recruitment event for Band 3 Health Care Support Workers on Monday 27th February 2023 and we would love to receive your application!

Job summary

We have exciting opportunities available to join our Trust as a Healthcare Assistant, band 3. Join us as a Healthcare Assistant on Tasman Ward Low Secure Services at Park Royal Centre For Mental Health and you will be able to combine doing a job that makes a positive difference to people in your area, with learning new skills and further achieving qualifications in care and nursing with a structured career pathway helping you to realise your potential in healthcare.

What we need from you:

• A positive and caring attitude
• Strong values
• Enthusiasm
• Sensitivity
• A determination to do a good job
• Willingness to learn

If you have some experience of care work that is great and the things above are a good description of you - then please apply.

What we will give you in return:

• A good starting salary and the potential to earn more as you learn
• Plenty of guidance and development from your supervisors and colleagues
• The satisfaction of supporting people who really need your care
• Training and development to achieve the Care Certificate
• The opportunity to go on to do further training, such as Functional Skills.

Health Care Support Workers work closely with people who use our services, their families, friends and carers - making an important contribution to how people experience our services. You will be expected to be kind, responsive professional and to contribute to the services we provide by:

• Working in partnership with patients and their families and carers.
• Providing skilled, evidence based care which adheres to agreed policies and procedures
• Working as part of a team implementing care plans or directive
• overseen by registered nurses and allied health professionals.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Here at Central and North West London NHS Trust we provide an extensive range of specialist health services including Physical Health, Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Eating Disorders, Addictions, Sexual Health and Health and Justice across London, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. Our services are mainly provided in the community, hospitals, schools and prisons.

We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

In return you will be offered an opportunity to receive both clinical and managerial supervision as well as yearly appraisals with a detailed development plan. You will have access to extensive in-house training to support you in your role.

What we offer

• 27 days’ leave (rising to 29 after 5 and to 33 after 10 years’ service)
• Enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Excellent progression through various career pathway opportunities
• Regular ongoing supervision and appraisals with optional coaching available
• Support towards the Continuous Professional Certificate
• Support to complete the Care Certificate
• Generous NHS pension
• Great maternity, paternity and adoption support
• Childcare vouchers
• Access to meaningful discounts and benefits such as cycle and travelcard loans, salary deduction schemes enabling you to buy a car and hundreds of household items whilst spreading the cost over 12 months.

Please refer to the Job descriptions attached for detailed responsibilities

Band 3 Health Care Support Worker work closely with people who use our Services, their families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services. Band 3 Health Care Support Workers are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:

• keeping the people who using our services as safe as possible by recognising the limits of the Health Care Assistant role and working closely with Registered Nurses
• contributing to the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence based policies and procedures when implementing care plans
• ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people when contributing to the implementation and evaluation of care plans