Mental Health Healthcare Support Worker | Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £24,937 - £26,598 per annum pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 20 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Pembury, TN2 4QJ |
| Cwmni: | Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7361929/359-7361929-T4 |
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Are you looking for a new and exciting challenge, are you highly motivated and innovative with excellent communication skills and a calm approach ?
An exciting opportunity has come up for a confident, enthusiastic and caring mental health support worker to join our friendly and dedicated team on Hedgehog our Children’s Ward.
If you have the ability to interact well with children and young people, are passionate and willing to listen to what they have to say and are interested in learning and applying new skills then we would love to hear from you.
There are financially supported opportunities for you to develop your knowledge and skills including training on supporting Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Youth work with apprenticeships including a pathway into paediatric nursing registration.
This is an essential role within the team and you will have a real opportunity to make a difference in the lives of children, young people and their parents. You will support recovery and provide care to children and young people who are in a mental health or behavioural related crisis on the children’s ward- ensuring the care experienced is positive and that the child/ young person’s safety is maintained.
Having the right values and attitude to working in a busy and often challenging environment are essential. You will be supported by experienced and knowledgeable staff on the unit, including our Mental Health Liaison Nurses .
You will also pro-actively support the Registered Nurses to provide high quality, holistic, child centred care within the multi-disciplinary team. This will include giving clinical and personal care to other patients on the unit as required and helping the ward staff to maintain a suitable environment to provide the highest standard of care possible.
Although experience of working with healthcare, specifically mental health or learning disabilities is desirable – we would welcome individuals who have experience working with children and young people but do not have this experience on a band 2 to 3 apprenticeship pathway.
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust ranks among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and was named the second-best Trust to work for in the South East in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.
We are a large acute hospital trust in south-east England, providing general hospital services and specialist care to around 600,000 residents in West Kent and East Sussex. With a dedicated and diverse team of over 8,000 staff we are proud to offer specialised cancer services to over two million people through the Kent Oncology Centre.
Fordcombe Hospital, near Tunbridge Wells, became part of the Trust in October 2024. Specialising in planned care, it offers two operating theatres, 28 inpatient and day-care beds, diagnostic services (X-ray, MRI, CT, and endoscopy), and consultation/treatment rooms.
Looking for flexible working?
We are a flexible working-friendly organisation. Whether it’s adjusting your hours or exploring other flexible arrangements, we want to work with you to find the best solution for you, our patients, and the Trust. Talk to us about how we can accommodate your working needs.
Joining us includes a comprehensive benefits package:
• At least 27 days of annual leave plus public/bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time staff).
• Membership in the NHS Pension Scheme, with a 20.6% employer contribution and life assurance benefits
• Blue Light card eligibility
• And more, additional benefits can be found in the benefits documents below
We’ve provided all the details you need about this role in the job description and person specification. Please take a moment to review the criteria in the person specification and share specific examples in your application that demonstrate how you meet these requirements. Please also check your application for errors/omissions prior to submission.
Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check atEnhanced Level.(Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children)
All successful applicants will be required to complete our corporate trust induction once a start date had been agreed.
Following your corporate induction you will be expected to attend the Trust’s Clinical Induction Programme for Healthcare Support Workers (which starts on the first day of employment). The programme is full-time (please contact the CSW Induction Programme Lead if you have any issues: rallen@nhs.net), lasts for two weeks and will involve travelling to both Trust sites. The programme includes two supernumerary shifts in the clinical area (an early and a late shift), all of the other days are classroom-based and run from 9am to 5pm
This advert closes on Monday 4 Aug 2025