Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker - Callington Road, Bristol

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Hazel unit are currently in a position to offer an exciting opportunity for a Band 3 Healthcare assistant to join our highly specialist and dedicated Multidisciplinary team based at Callington Road Hospital in Bristol.
Hazel unit is a 12 bedded Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) for male adults of working age who are suffering from severe episodes of mental illness, requiring enhanced levels of care and support.
Working on a PICU is both incredibly challenging and rewarding; this post will offer to the right candidate a very valuable experience in dealing with some of the most complex cases in psychiatry.
As a specialist PICU Service we work as a multi disciplinary team to provide the best possible care for your service users. This includes, occupational therapy, art psychotherapy, psychology, music therapy, active life and physiotherapy.
We work closely with all in-patient wards within the Trust to offer support and guidance and pride ourselves on being expert in supporting men in crisis and an approachable service for teams to seek specialist advice.
Your major role will be to engage with service users and help meet their needs during the most difficult period in their lives. Experience of working with individuals in crisis is desirable. This is a challenging environment and we are seeking people with enthusiasm, motivation and resilience.
You will receive relevant training and supervision, and may be able to rotate into other areas of Bristol services.
Our team is very passionate and enthusiastic in our therapeutic recovery focused approach to care and we truly pride ourselves in having developed a very good reputation within our area of specialist expertise.
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
To deliver high quality care and recovery interventions for service users within designated clinical areas, in collaboration with, and under the indirect supervision of, registered care staff. These may include:
supporting individuals with fluids and nutrition, physical wellbeing, and personal care.
Assisting service users with financial or accommodation issues.
escorting or accompanying service users for planned periods of leave on hospital grounds and in the community facilitating social inclusion.
Encouraging service users to talk about their experiences in one-to-one or group discussions.
To help maintain a clean, well-organised, safe and therapeutic environment that meets the needs of service users, carers and colleagues, and to support registered care staff to perform standardised environmental assessments to monitor and improve the care setting.
To deliver psychosocially-informed one to one and group interventions aiming to positively impact service users’ cognitive and emotional wellbeing.
To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. To assume lead or link roles on core practice initiatives and priorities (e.g. Essence of Care, Safe wards and carer engagement) under the supervision of registered staff. To integrate areas of personal interest with clinical practice to enhance the diversity of the team’s provision of care.
To practise planned care, and to directly participate in the development of recovery-focused interventions that address service users’ and carers’ needs and preferences. To proactively review, record and assess the on-going impacts of such interventions.
To participate in the on-going care planning, CPA and risk assessment processes in collaboration with service users, their carers, and other members of the care team and to contribute to all aspects of clinical record keeping.
To maintain a basic working understanding of both the Mental Health Act (1983) and Mental Capacity Act (2005), and any other relevant legislation, as required by mandatory and statutory training (MaST).
To adhere to AWP’s Code of Conduct for unregistered practitioners; promoting and embedding it through the delivery of peer support and supervision to junior, temporary and newly appointed Health Care Support Workers.
To observe and record interactions with service users and carers both verbally and in writing via clinical records and staff handovers.
To deliver a wide range of fundamental care interventions using evidence based clinical tools, to monitor and improve physical health and personal wellbeing and to model a high standard of dignity, respect and candour.
To engage in reflective practice to maintain and promote ongoing clinical practice.
To promote and enhance a positive learning culture, being proactive in the induction, orientation and support of junior, temporary and newly appointed Health Care Support Workers, seeking to embed core care values into practice

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