Healthcare Assistant

at  Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

CAMHS Inpatients are looking for highly motivated, caring and compassionate individuals with knowledge and skills of working with young people with mental health difficulties.
All staff in a non-registered staff role will undertake NHFT’s Prepare to Care programme as part of their induction. Using a blended learning approach, you will attain key skills and competencies enabling you to provide safe and compassionate care from the very start. Alongside this, you will also complete the Care Certificate within your first 12 weeks of employment, this may act as stepping stone should you wish to further your career later on. You will be supported through your induction by a dedicated team, who’s primary focus is to ensure you have the right skills to do your job effectively.
Work within the team to deliver quality and care to the young people admitted to the Inpatient Wards. Assisting with individual and group therapy sessions through an identified timetable of educational and therapeutic activities. Support and supervision will be given by the Registered Nurses.
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
Assisting members of the team to enable completion of a full assessment. Assisting the registered nurses with admission and discharge. Providing direct support to the young people and their families
Maintain effective communication and record keeping.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document

Please refer the Job description for details