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An exciting opportunity has arisen within the inpatient wards for an enthusiastic Health Care Support Worker, Band 3, to join our busy and motivated team on Brett Ward
Brett Ward's aim is to deliver a patient focused care that provides patients with an opportunity to better understand the crisis or behaviour that resulted in their admission and to learn coping skills to reduce the risk of relapse.

Our main aims are to:
Supporting the in-patients wards during psychiatric emergencies.
Promoting a safe environment of care that safeguards and protects patients and staff against undue risk.
Facilitating a positive role for patients where open communication and opportunities for learning and decision-making are promoted
Maintaining the patients right to spend no more time than clinically necessary in a locked environment.
Provide support and clinical assistance to the other hospitals within the trust.
Provide support and liaise with the community mental health teams and other allied professionals
As a Band 3, you will assist in the provision of outstanding recovery focused care as part of the nursing team and wider multi-disciplinary team.
Our expectation is that you will be a highly motivated and dynamic team member; who is able to demonstrate quality therapeutic interactions with service users who require good support for their high dependency and complex needs.

• To take an active role in direct service user care.
• Ensuring that a service user-centred multi-disciplinary approach to

care is present

• Record observations regarding assessment of need, including risk

assessment.

• Ensuring that all practices are in accordance with Trust policies and

instructions provided by the registered nurses

• Work in conjunction with other health care professionals to provide

therapeutic and meaningful activities for service users

• Promote anti-discriminatory practice.
• As an associate nurse attend your service users CPA meetings and

Managers hearings.

• Work within clinical performance objectives at all times.
• Knowledge of safeguard issues and reporting and escalating

processes.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.