Mental Healthcare Assistant
- Employer
- Priory Group
- Location
- West Midlands, Willenhall
- Salary
- Up to £10.9 per hour
- Closing date
- 17 Jun 2022
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- Sector
- Mental Health Nursing
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Setting
- Independent Sector
- Job Role
- Nursing Support Worker
- Salary
- £20,000 - £30,000
Job Details
Ready for the recognition and rewards you deserve?We don't just talk about putting employees first. We know that Priory wouldn't exist without their combined energy, expertise and effort. So we invest heavily in training, provide first-class support, promote collaborative teamwork and give everyone on our team the opportunities and resources to achieve their full potential.
Ready for the recognition and rewards you deserve?
We don't just talk about putting employees first. We know that Priory wouldn't exist without their combined energy, expertise and effort. So we invest heavily in training, provide first-class support, promote collaborative teamwork and give everyone on our team the opportunities and resources to achieve their full potential.
Lakeside View is a 32 bedded hospital in Willenhall that cares for patients who are 18 years and over in an acute setting.
Finch Ward - 12 bedded male acute ward
Robin Ward - 8 bedded male acute ward
Swan Ward - 8 bedded female acute ward
The aim at Lakeside View is to provide a person centred approach and therapeutic environment, which promotes collaborative care planning to optimise treatment goals. Right from the point of admission to our acute services, our aim is to support patients to be discharged safely back into the community where they can continue to progress towards recovery in a less restrictive environment.
Main Duties:
- Support service users to attend and gain new experiences within their local community
- Support and assist service users with personal care as identified in agreed plans of care
- Act as a key-worker for a service user, with support from the RMN
- Establish and maintain relationships with service users which will complement and contribute to the care programme and create a pleasant environment in which to live
- Contribute to the daily running of the hospital, e.g. shopping, cleaning and involving residents to the limits of their ability in all aspects of normal daily living.
- Accompany residents on shopping trips and outings
- Possess the ability to diffuse/resolve stressful situations with the use of effective communication skills
What we'd like from you
- Previous experience within a healthcare setting desirable
- A strong sense of responsibility
- Reliable & trustworthy
- Willingness to learn
- Effective communication skills
- Flexibility and strong "can do" attitude
- Quality orientation
Requirements
- Education to GCSE Standard or equivalent
- NVQ or equivalent would be an advantage.
- Previous experience of healthcare in a similar setting would be an advantage
In return for your expertise and hard work, we offer a wide range of benefits including:
- 25 days' annual leave plus 8 bank holidays increasing to 30 days plus bank holidays with length of service
- Extra Service Annual leave awards
- Career development - progress across the Staff Nurse grading is via a distinct career path
- A contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Private medical insurance
- Free meals/refreshments when on duty
- Free car parking
- Flexible Benefits Packages
Company
Nursing at Priory Healthcare
At Priory Healthcare, we’re passionately committed to making a real and lasting difference for everyone we support. But that’s just the start. As a recognised leader in the healthcare sector, we’re equally passionate about harnessing the potential of everyone on our team – including our rapidly growing community of RMN’s.
So join us and we can promise you one of the most dynamic and supportive career environments in the sector.
We are already the largest mental health provider in Europe and treat upwards of 80 conditions in over 275 facilities around the country. But look beyond our size and you will also discover an unrivalled reputation for providing quality, inspiring innovation and delivery value for our service users.
What does this mean for you? More than you might imagine.
For a start, there’s greater clinical diversity here than anywhere outside of the NHS. This offers you the chance to develop your career at the forefront of nursing practice in one or more of our six specialist areas – Acute Mental Healthcare, Secure, Rehabilitation and Complex Care, Eating Disorders and Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
You will enjoy excellent learning and development resources, too. In addition to benefiting from our award-winning e-learning programme, your structured career progression could include supported study for specialist diplomas, preceptorships if you are newly qualified, a range of other externally accredited courses, the option of becoming a trainer on your own site, and much more besides.
Our working environment and culture are also exceptional. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team of doctors, psychiatrists, therapists and other health care specialists. We don’t just work together. We listen to each other, share ideas, explore new ways of doing things and actively pursue innovation and excellence is all that we do. So while the work can be incredibly demanding, you will never lack the support, collaboration and encouragement you need to perform to your best and achieve your true potential.
As for recognition and rewards, they are everything you would expect from an organisation that values your expertise and commitment. And your career prospects? Well, the sheer scope and scale of our behavioural care services – and the pace of our development as a business – means that you can grow as far and fast as we do.
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