Mental Health Care Support Worker

Job Title: Care Support Worker – Mental Health

Trust Location:_ The Princess Alexandra Hospitals NHS Trust_

Pay rates: Day: £10.90, Night/Saturday: £15.37, Sunday/Bank Holiday: £19.95

We are all NHS Professionals... could you be?

Work the days you want to work

We are NHS Professionals (NHSP), working together to care for patients in the NHS. Providing you with the power to decide when, how, and where you want to work. Supporting your lifestyle and making you feel part of the team and community.

As a member, you’ll have fantastic benefits:

· Competitive pay rates – work this week, get paid next week

· Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go – access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone

· Essential support when you need it – 24/7 365 days – Call us anytime

· Multi-locational - work across neighbouring Trusts

· First choice of shifts or placements at your Trust – access before they are made available to agency

· Varied working options to suit your lifestyle – access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or fixed term placements

· Training and development opportunities

· Build holiday allowance for every shift you work

· Stakeholder pension scheme available

About the Trust

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services in or around Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford, and Epping.

Located along the M11 corridor on the edges of London, with Stansted airport nearby, there are a range of good leisure, education and shopping facilities, as well as plenty of green space criss-crossed with a network of award-winning cycleways.

Excellent transport links to London and Cambridge, including a tube station in Epping, provide easy access to city life. PAHT also has an on-site nursery and a preferential car leasing scheme.

What you’ll be responsible for

· 1 Monitoring patients’ conditions and the results of treatment

· 2 Using initiative when responding to changes in a patients’ condition within own sphere of practices

· 3 Recognising limitations and escalating concerns

· 4 Responding to distressed patients in a non-threatening manner and attempt to reduce their feelings of isolation

The role will involve, but not be limited to you performing the above.

You’ll have the following qualification/experience:

· An NVQ Level 2 or above in Health & Social Care Qualification or Care Certificate Qualification that has been obtained within the NHS

· A minimum of 6 months experience if one of the above qualifications is obtain, if not a minimum of 12 months is required. Experience must be within an NHS or private setting such as Hospice, however Care Home experience is not accepted

· Undertake regular mandatory training*

*Depending on the Trust, you may require variable additional certification and skills.

Who are NHS Professionals?

We specialise in putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated candidates and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, access to more shifts and a healthier work-life balance, giving more choice and control to our members.

As an equal opportunities' organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply.

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By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.

Disclaimer

Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly. We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

Job Type: Zero hours contract

Salary: £10.90-£19.95 per hour

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 12 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• No weekends
• Weekend availability
• Weekends only

Work Location: One location