Job summary
Employer heading
Health Care Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 3
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
We are looking for a band 3 Health Care Assistant to work with our team at Lambourn Grove, a Continuing Care Unit for people classed as having complex needs.
HPFT is a very supportive organisation to work for and we have have trust values - kind, welcoming, respectful, professional and positive.
Benefits we offer:
1. A coaching network where trained coaches throughout the Trust are matched with staff of all disciplines to provide a powerful development opportunity
2. Leading company discounts and childcare vouchers
3. Salary sacrifice schemes enabling staff to drive a new car or bike - saving on tax and insurance included
4. Wellbeing activities - from mindfulness to yoga, pilates and our signature craft club join our monthly programme of regular and special events to support your wellbeing. Discounts, including Nuffield Health and David Lloyd.
6. Refer a friend to work for the Trust and receive up to £500! (A payment of £250 will be made when the applicant commences employment with us and a further payment of £250 will be made once they hit 6 months continuous service with us, terms and conditions apply).
Main duties of the job
Assisting service users with ADLs - washing and dressing, showering, continence needs, eating and drinking, sleeping needs
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on…”
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Assisting service users with ADLs - washing, dressing, showering, eating and drinking, sleeping
meeting service user`s psychological, social and spiritual needs
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Academic qualifications . NVQ 3
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Recognises and reflects on barriers to effective communication, modifying communication in response
- Keeps accurate and complete records and communication consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
- Demonstrate good verbal presentation skills
- Excellent communicator
Desirable criteria
- De escalation in managing verbal aggression of disturbed service users
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Katrina Sous
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01727 734951
- Additional information
You can ask for a visit to look around Lambourn Grove
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