Health Care Assistant - Band 3

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Health Care Assistant - Band 3

Sapphire ward is looking to expand. The service is unique and differs from the rest of the inpatient services across the Brooklands Site. The vast majority of the assessment and treatment needs of the patients are completed for this patient group . We specialise in complex and often prolonged transitions of patients with complex needs that either cannot live in a main ward environment or require slower, longer transitions in a lower arousal space.

We are looking for enthusiastic staff to join the team on sapphire as we expand the service into phase 2. We require committed, reliable, motivated, compassionate, outgoing and energetic individuals to join us in developing our service further. Individuals should be person centred in approach, willing and able to support patients with complex needs. They should be able to work under direct supervision and be willing and able to work independently in guiding and sharing knowledge with external transition staff. This is a key component of the role of the frontline staff on the ward.

The ethos of the ward is to prepare patients and bridge the gap through transition from inpatient to community. Individuals must be willing and able to support patients to accessing community facing facilities. Individuals must be skilled in supporting and promoting independence by supporting patients to participate and maximise independence in activities of daily living skills on and off the ward.

Main duties of the job

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As a Health care Assistant, You will be required to assist patients with Activities of Daily living, personal care, support leave on site and in the community and to complete observations. You will be required to work closely with the Qualified Nurses and all members of the Multi Disciplinary Team so that assessment and treatment can be completed in a timely manner. You will be assigned as a member of a care team for an allocated individual and will play a very important part in the patient’s transition back into the community.

As an expanding service we are looking for individuals that are confident in supporting the Operational manager, clinical lead and wider multi disciplinary team into continually developing an improving the service through involvement in care planning, PBS implementation and improving patient care and experience from those that use the service and families/carers.

This is achieved over a 24 hour period on a rota system and includes days, nights, weekends, bank holidays (including Christmas and New Year)

About Us

Whilst full induction and training will be given due to specialist nature of the service it is crucial that staff have a particular interest in this group. The post holder will be required to provide emergency to other units in event of temporary staff deficits.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services, we see on average around 5,000 patients every day.

The service received an overall rating of Good by the CQC and an Outstanding for care and compassion of which we are rightly proud. We have also been recognised both locally and nationally by receiving awards for the services we provide.

Job Description Job Responsibilities

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Trust Values

Compassion - We are compassionate, kind and caring to everyone, including people who use our services and people we work with.

Respect- We are civil and respectful. We celebrate diversity and always appreciate the views of other people.

Excellence - We always do our best and seek to achieve excellence in all we do. We innovate and try new things and when things don’t go to plan, we embrace this as an opportunity to learn and improve

Collaboration - We take pride in involving people and working together as an inclusive team, both within our organisation, and in co-production with people who use our services, carers, partners, local community groups and others.

Integrity - We do the right thing and people can trust us. We are open, honest and transparent even when things go wrong.

Qualifications

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Hold NVQ Level II in Health and Social Care and be willing to work towards NVQ III, willing to undertake work-based assessments
• Willing to undertake the Care Certificate (Learning Disabilities)
  
  

Experience Essential

• Experience of working with people with a learning disability.
  
  

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details Employer name

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Address

Brooklands Hospital

Coleshill Road

Birmingham

B37 7HL

Employer’s website

https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)