social worker Devizes, England
Job description
Are you looking to develop a career in mental health?We are looking to recruit compassionate, resilient and enthusiastic Healthcare Support Workers within our 20 bedded acute ward. Where we provide care and support for working adults providing assessment and treatment for various mental health illnesses and disorders.
This is an opportunity for you to develop arewarding career where you can make a real difference to help change the lives of our service user group for the better.
This can be a challenging yet rewarding environment where as a team we strive to help our service users to overcome a variety of complex needs.
You will be able to learn and understand how to care for service users that are in mental health crisis by promoting choice and independence in the least restrictive way possible.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
As a healthcare support worker the majority of your time will be spent engaging and getting know the service users on the ward. You will become able to recognise signs and symptoms of mental health illness and as a key member of the multi professional team which include Nurses, Doctors, Occupational Therapists. You will be able to support in collaborative care planning and implementation.
Although we are a mental health unit we give as much emphasis on physical health care and monitoring. The role of Health care support worker is vital in this area being able to ensure that daily well being needs and care needs are met and monitoring of clinical vital signs.
Successful applicants will also be required to undertake and complete a Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression course. This enables staff to begin building the skills to de escalate service users in peaks of distress whilst maintaining a safe and therapeutic environment for all.
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust)a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care. We are committed to supporting employees and staff wellbeing and development is important to the team at Poppy.
You will be learning on the job continually building new skills. There will also be developmental and learning opportunity that are accessible, which includes a comprehensive statutory and mandatory training programme. You will also receive training to complete the NHS Care Certificate and a Level 3 Healthcare apprenticeship.
The ward operates on a 24/7 shift basis and you will be required to work shifts including evenings, nights, weekends and Bank Holidays and will qualify for unsocial enhancements in addition to your basic pay.
1. To deliver high quality care and recovery interventions for
service users within designated clinical areas, in collaboration
with, and under the indirect supervision of, registered care
staff. These may include:
Supporting individuals with fluids and nutrition, physical
wellbeing, and personal care.
Assisting service users with financial or accommodation issues.
Escorting or accompanying service users for planned periods of
leave on hospital grounds and in the community facilitating
social inclusion.
- Encouraging service users to talk about their experiences in
2. To help maintain a clean, well-organised, safe and therapeutic
environment that meets the needs of service users, carers and
colleagues, and to support registered care staff to perform
standardised environmental assessments to monitor and
improve the care setting.
3. To deliver psychosocially-informed one to one and group
interventions aiming to positively impact service users’
cognitive and emotional wellbeing.
4. To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. To assume lead or
link roles on core practice initiatives and priorities (e.g. Essence
of Care, Safewards and carer engagement) under the
supervision of registered staff. To integrate areas of personal
interest with clinical practice to enhance the diversity of the
team’s provision of care.
5. To practise planned care, and to directly participate in the
development of recovery-focused interventions that address
service users’ and carers’ needs and preferences. To proactively
review, record and assess the on-going impacts of such
interventions.
6. To participate in the on-going care planning, CPA and risk
assessment processes in collaboration with service users, their
carers, and other members of the care team and to contribute
to all aspects of clinical record keeping.
7. To maintain a basic working understanding of both the Mental
Health Act (1983) and Mental Capacity Act (2005), and any
other relevant legislation, as required by mandatory and
statutory training (MaST).
8. To adhere to AWP’s Code of Conduct for unregistered
practitioners; promoting and embedding it through the delivery
of peer support and supervision to junior, temporary and newly
appointed Health Care Support Workers.
9. To observe and record interactions with service users and
carers both verbally and in writing via clinical records and staff
handovers.
10. To deliver a wide range of fundamental care interventions
using evidence based clinical tools, to monitor and improve
physical health and personal wellbeing and to model a high
standard of dignity, respect and candour.
11. To engage in reflective practice to maintain and promote
ongoing clinical practice.
12. To promote and enhance a positive learning culture, being
proactive in the induction, orientation and support of junior,
temporary and newly appointed Health Care Support Workers,
seeking to embed core care values into practice.
