Healthcare Support Worker

Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Healthcare Support Worker to join us at Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital.
This comes at a time of transformation in mental health services under the community mental health framework.
Our main focus is to collaboratively work with service users to promote engagement and to facilitate an optimum level of independence and self-management.
Our expectation is that you will endeavour to establish therapeutic relationships within which to address recovery goals in order to help service users to gain access to a range of resources and services to facilitate involvement and connection with the local community.

Main duties of the job

• Monitor physical health and mental health outcomes of those attending the clinic.
• To provide and support physical health assessments, and relevant physical health interventions to support service users with mental conditions to improve their physical health and overall well-being.
• Primary focus on service users with longer term mental health needs, primarily with severe mental health problems such as psychosis.
• To support and work alongside registered mental health nurses, registered general nurses, pharmacy technicians and pharmacist in the clinic team.
• To work with service users and relevant staff to develop mental and physical health care plans and monitor health and social outcomes of clinic clients.
• To promote positive physical and mental health to service users, carers, families and staff.
• To be familiar with and able to use medical devices and to be able to accurately record readings and have an understanding of normal abnormal parameters.
• To be take blood as part of physical health monitoring.
• To take part in regular completing of clinical data and information. data on clinical IT systems.
• To support service users to think more about their health needs and identify their own health goals, and to support monitoring goals identified with other members of the team

Working for our organisation
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated 'Good' by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work as part of the Intra Muscular Injection (depot medication) clinic and Clozapine clinic team and to safely monitor the health and treatment of clients attending the clinics in Sittingbourne and the Isle of Sheppey.

• Monitor physical health and mental health outcomes of those attending the clinic.
• To provide and support physical health assessments, and relevant physical health interventions to support service users with mental conditions to improve their physical health and overall well-being.

Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)

Person specification

Essential criteria

Essential criteria

• NVQ L2 or L3 in mental health and social care award
• Experience in Mental Health

Desirable criteria

• 2 years Experience
• Team Working

Essential

Essential criteria

• Communication Skills

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of working in Adult Mental Health

Important Information:
In cases where we receive a high volume of applications for a post, it may be necessary to bring the closing date forward. Please submit your completed application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Due to the high volume of applications received, it is not possible to respond individually to your application. Should you not hear from us within six weeks of the vacancy closing, please assume that your application has not been successful.

Probation Period. New employees external to the trust are subject to a six-month probationary period.
To deliver an effective service it is essential in some of our roles that you are able to travel between work bases in a timely manner.
Production of false or forged documents/qualifications in order to obtain employment is a criminal offence and will be reported to the Police.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check.
Certain roles are subject to criminal record checks called Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. Therefore, you will be required to submit a completed Disclosure form to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust are signed up to NHS England's Sexual Safety in Health Care Organisational Charter
The trust takes a systematic zero-tolerance approach to tackle any unwanted, inappropriate and/or harmful sexual behaviours within the workplace and in our care provision. We are committed to sexual safety which encompasses prevention, support and decisive action against perpetrators. We are committed to keeping you and our patients safe.

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