Job overview

It’s an exciting time to join our dynamic and innovative team  Do you want to develop your skills, with the backing of a well-developed team and make a difference to the recovery of our patients? If the answer is yes, we want you to join us!

Heather Ward ward is a 15-bedded Male acute mental health in-patient unit. We specialise in the assessment and treatment of adults with complex mental health needs.

This can be a challenging, yet rewarding environment and requires excellent organisation skills and the ability to use your initiative. The Healthcare Worker is a key member of the multidisciplinary care team and will have continuing responsibility as follows:

Under limited supervision from a senior associate worker, qualified nurse, occupational therapist or the nurse in charge, deliver an effective and competent level of care, which is determined by the patient's care plan.

Main duties of the job

• Support the work of the multidisciplinary team
• Consistently delivering a patient focused service, which promotes optimum independence.
• Offering appropriate support and advice to the patients.
• Recording accurately all care given as required.
• Enable patients to maintain and improve their independence by promoting active involvement in the therapeutic activity programme.
• Noting and reporting accurately any care given and/or information required by the nurse in charge.
• Give physical care as required or instructed.
• Promote patient’s appearance and personal hygiene by offering support/advice in self care and ensuring that suitable toiletries are available.
• Promote a healthy, safe and secure environment by adhering to Trust statutory health and safety requirements and maintain confidentiality of information at all times in compliance with the Trust Policies.
• Assist patients to maintain a clean and healthy ward environment and assist them in all aspects of daily living skills as required.
• Supervise the care given by band 2 healthcare workers.
• Be fully aware of the needs of patients over a 24hr span of care.

Working for our organisation

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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