Band 3 Healthcare Assistant - Oleaster | Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £22,816 - £24,336 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 10 May 2024 |
| Location: | Birmingham, B15 2SY |
| Company: | Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6163260/436-6163260 |
Summary
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We currently have a exciting opportunity for Healthcare Assistant to join at oleaster Caffra suite picu
Healthcare Assistants provide a key role across our wards and services, providing vital care and support to our service users. Under the guidance of a qualified nurses, our Healthcare Assistants assist in assessments, provide social and therapeutic activities for service users, assist them with daily living activities and ensure the smooth running of the ward. Their contribution to the running of an effective service is crucial and they are a key part of the team.
We expect all our Healthcare Assistants to uphold our Trust values, especially around compassion and dignity and respect. Therefore, we are looking for kind, empathic, caring individuals who have experience of working in a healthcare setting, ideally in mental health services.
We are offering this role with the need to work shifts including weekends, days and nights.
We are looking to recruit dedicated and highly motivated individuals who are passionate about providing and maintaining our high-quality standards and compassionate care to in-patients on the wards in Oleaster. Our service users often experience complex mental ill health and/or personality disorders with dual diagnosis and can often demonstrate challenging behaviour.
Oleaster provides specialist care for service users that often have complex mental health and social care needs and offers support in peoples recovery through holistic treatments, promoting social inclusion, self-management, personal autonomy and independence.
Successful applicants must be able to work in a challenging and dynamic environment and will need to demonstrate a range of skills including effective communication, empathy, self-awareness, and critical self-reflection skills.
You will receive regular supervision and training to support both your personal development and the services objectives; to enable you to deliver not only sound clinical practice but also to support the learning of others within and on placement to the team.
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.
Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people’s lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
We are unable to support applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work the United Kingdom (UK)
This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Apr 2024