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Health Support Worker (Apprenticeship/Development Post) | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 14 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,166 - £30,225 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 April 2025 |
| Location: | Greenwich, London, SE18 4QH |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7082210/277-7082210-AAC |
Summary
Do you want to make a difference?Are you passionate about mental health and wellbeing?
This is a fantastic opportunity to take your first steps into a career in the NHS as a Health Care Assistant in Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.
You will be a HCA Apprentice on our acute inpatient wards that provide inpatient mental health care for adults (over 18) in the borough of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich. We have vacancies in a number of locations including (Green Parks House, Oxleas House, Woodlands Unit, Barefoot Lodge and Oaktree Lodge). While we cannot guarantee a specific ward we will aim to accommodate successful candidates’ preferences of location as much as possible.
The HCA scheme will include Training and Development opportunities either through Oxleas funded CPD route or Apprenticeship funded route to enhance further career opportunities.
The level 2 Apprenticeship programme will provide you with a work-based training programme focusing on the whole job, not just individual skills, and provides you with a set of vocational and functional skills and a nationally recognised qualification. The HCA scheme (either route) will provide you with the expertise and knowledge required to become competent in supporting patients in hospitals across a range of specialities. At the end of the first 12 months if you meet the required competencies you will automatically progress to a Senior Health Care Assistant (Band 3) role.
Healthcare Support Workers play a vital role in delivering high quality standards of care to patients in the hospital. Our Healthcare Assistants work at the heart of our multi-disciplinary teams who support our patients by assisting the Registered Nurses in planning, delivering, and evaluating care.
Your duties will be varied and include:
• Demonstrating what it means in practice to promote and provide person centred care and treatment
• Supporting by obtaining valid consent, and carrying out risk assessments
• Working in partnership with the individual, their carer, families and the wider healthcare team
• Promoting clinical effectiveness, safety and a good experience for the individual
• Assisting patients during mealtimes
• Maintenance of their personal hygiene
• Making patients comfortable
• Talking and listening to patient
• Involvement in patient activities
• You will also gain experience in gaining a number of key clinical skills such as undertaking observations - temperature, blood pressure, blood glucose and urine tests
This is a demanding yet rewarding role. It is a highly fulfilling profession with options to progress your career.
You will be working a variety of shifts including long days, nights, weekends, and bank holidays.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
• Providing physical care and psychological support to patients according to a written care plan.
• Being an effective communicator, observer & listener.
• Understanding the need for and maintaining patient confidentiality at all times.
• Adhering to all organisational, policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Ensuring good working relationships with patients, carers, relatives, other professionals and the public.
• Developing an understanding of and demonstrating use of clinical supervision to reflect upon and modify practice.
• Behaving at all times in a professionally acceptable manner.
This advert closes on Monday 31 Mar 2025
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