Healthcare Assistant (Mental Health) - Full Time - London
NHS
Entry-level
Not specified
Woolwich, ENG, GB
Posted 4 weeks ago
Job summary
Join Oxleas NHS Trust's Healthcare Assistant team, making a real difference in patients' lives. You'll provide compassionate support and care for adults facing mental health challenges using your strong communication skills. With a supportive team and great training programs, plus competitive benefits, this is an awesome opportunity for growth. Apply now to get started on your rewarding career in the NHS!
Role details
- Role
- Full-time
- Industry
- Healthcare And Medical
- Employment
- Fulltime
Responsibilities
- assist patients with activities of daily living
- communicate effectively with patients and team
- participate in planning activities for patients
- report changes in patient condition
- support patients in adaptation during transitions
- undertake housekeeping and clerical duties
- attend mandatory training and staff meetings
Requirements
- work under the direction of registered nurses
- maintain confidentiality and security
- adhere to organizational policies
- develop understanding of clinical supervision
- behave in a professionally acceptable manner
Benefits
- competitive salary
- training and development programs
- supportive work environment
- opportunities for career growth
Key skills
Patient Care
Communication
Confidentiality
Teamwork
Support For Patients
Clinical Supervision
Housekeeping
Administrative Duties
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- Senior Health Care Assistant, Band 3
- • Full Time \- 37/5 hours per week
- • Make a Difference Every Day
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Do you want a career where your kindness and care make a tangible difference?
Oxleas NHS Trust is searching for compassionate and dedicated Healthcare Assistants to join our acute admission wards teams. You'll play a vital role in supporting adults experiencing mental health challenges, offering them hope and stability during a difficult time. We have vacancies in all our main mental health inpatient sites at Green Parks House (Princess Royal University Hospital), Oxleas House (Queen Elizabeth Hospital) and Woodlands Unit (Queen Marys Hospital).
Why you'll love working here:
Make a Real Impact: Provide compassionate care and support to patients during a critical time in their lives.
Supportive Team: Join a collaborative and friendly team that values your contribution and offers opportunities for growth.
Develop Your Skills: Access excellent training and development programs to advance your career in the NHS.
Competitive Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package alongside the intrinsic rewards of working within the NHS.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Acute and Crisis Directorate : Healthcare Assistant (Mental Health) at Oxleas NHS Trust \
To work as directed by a registered nurse.
To provide care physical care to patients in accordance with their care plan
Understanding the need for and always maintaining confidentiality and security.
Adhering to all organisational and ward policies, procedures and guidelines.
Ensuring good working relationships with patients, carers, relatives, other professionals and prison and healthcare staff.
Developing an understanding of and demonstrating use of clinical supervision to reflect upon and modify practice.
Behaving at all times in a professionally acceptable manner
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We’re Kind
We’re Fair
We Listen
We Care
Assist patients will all activities of daily living (eating and drinking, movement, physical comfort, personal hygiene and use of toilet facilities).
To work at the direction of registered nurses
Communicate effectively with patients and the multi\-disciplinary team.
Participate in planning and liaison activities for patients.
Inform a registered nurse as soon as possible when any change in a patient’s condition is noticed.
Support patients in change due to admission, discharge, death or personal loss and in adapting to their new environment.
Report any complaints or requests for information from patients immediately to the senior nurse on duty to enable prompt response.
Use resources effectively.
Report all risks to the senior nursing staff.
Assist in the general running of the department by undertaking housekeeping and clerical duties as appropriate.
Participate in appraisal and training of self to develop a personal development plan and strive to achieve the set objectives, including NVQs.
Undertake any other duties commensurate to the grade and as requested by the line manager.
Attend staff meetings, updates and attend mandatory training as required.
Take responsibility for carrying a radio and responding as required.
Work closely with Management to ensure that the Prison Health Agenda is supported at all levels in the Practice.
Develop and maintain effective communications with all interested parties.