Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (12 hour shifts day/ nights over 7 days)
- Job ref
- 110-ACS130-0424
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Glamorgan Hospital
- Town
- Llantrisant
- Salary
- £22,720 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Health Care Support Worker
Band 2
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic and highly motivated Band 2 HCSW to join our team on Seren Unit based at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital. We are an 15 bedded older adult dementia admissions unit providing person centered care for people suffering with dementia.
The successful candidate will be expected to work collaboratively with the qualified to ensure that a high standard of care is maintained across the unit, and be expected to demonstrate a genuine interest in this field of nursing, displaying excellent people skills such as communication. They will be expected to work as part of a team, ensuring the delivery of high quality person centered patient care.
Staff working within this environment are afforded the opportunity to experience diverse mental illnesses which effect older people.
Main duties of the job
Work within a Multidisciplinary Team under the direction of a registered nurse.
To support the delivery of health care with individual service user care plans
Support the delivery of a range of interventions required to support service users meeting their personal care needs ensuring safety, privacy and dignity is maintained at all times.
Observe the safety of service users at all times and if requested account for their whereabouts.
Assist with safe and supportive levels of engagement of patients deemed to be at risk of self harm
Participate in supervision from Registered Nurses.
Develop knowledge and skills via the appraisal and supervision process and keep up to date with statutory and mandatory training
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
We listen, learn and improve
We treat everyone with respect
We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Have NVQ Level 2 or equivalent competence gained through experience and supervision
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to demonstrate a person centered approach
- Able to undertake Formal Restrictive Physical Intervention Training with annual up-dates
Desirable criteria
- I.T. skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a Mental Health setting
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Chris Bevan
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443443
- Additional information
ext. 74798
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