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Healthcare Assistant
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Job Description
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- Good verbal and written communication skills, using tact and sensitivity.
- Good interpersonal skills
- Ability to work within the MDT, and assist the team in assessment, planning and coordination of activities.
- Ability to deal with sensitive and distressing situations.
- Relevant Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties
- Experience of working with babies up to one year of age.
- Experience of working with women/family work.
- Relevant Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties.
- NVQ level2/3 in Health and Social care.
- Commitment to undertake continued personal development and mandatory training.
- Desire to further skills and knowledge.
- Understanding of trust policy and procedure.
- Broad understanding of mental illness.
- Knowledge of perinatal psychiatry
- Knowledge of infant development
- To work shifts over a 24 hour period.
- Ability to be flexible and supportive to needs, of the developing service and future changes.
- Able to undertake Trust MVA training. Occasional use of MVA.
- Ability to be able to care for babies up to one year of age
- Good verbal and written communication skills, using tact and sensitivity.
- Good interpersonal skills
- Ability to work within the MDT, and assist the team in assessment, planning and coordination of activities.
- Ability to deal with sensitive and distressing situations.
- Relevant Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties
- Experience of working with babies up to one year of age.
- Experience of working with women/family work.
- Relevant Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties.
- NVQ level2/3 in Health and Social care.
- Commitment to undertake continued personal development and mandatory training.
- Desire to further skills and knowledge.
- Understanding of trust policy and procedure.
- Broad understanding of mental illness.
- Knowledge of perinatal psychiatry
- Knowledge of infant development
- To work shifts over a 24 hour period.
- Ability to be flexible and supportive to needs, of the developing service and future changes.
- Able to undertake Trust MVA training. Occasional use of MVA.
- Ability to be able to care for babies up to one year of age
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Perinatal Psychiatric Inpatient Team. The Margaret Oates Mother and Baby Unit is located at Greenhaven and cares for women with serious mental illness in the perinatal period.
The Margaret Oates, Mother and Baby Unit has the capacity to admit 8 mothers and their babies. We accept admissions from the whole of the England for mothers with serious mental illness in the third trimester of pregnancy and up to one year post-partum. Babies are admitted with their mothers to build and maintain the mother/infant relationship. The Unit is accreditated by the Perinatal Quality Network.
Main duties
An opportunity has arisen within the Perinatal Inpatient Unit for a full time, 37.5 hours per week, Band 3 Healthcare Assistant post, working a mixture of long days and nights. You will be part of a dedicated MDT delivering high quality care to women and their babies. Experience of working within an acute setting with serious mental illness is preferable, however a full induction programme will be provided. You will be expected to work within the multi-disciplinary team, supporting mothers and their babies, supporting both in the day to day care.
Main duties of the job
This role requires an individual with the ability to provide excellent patient care standards within the clinical area, and work with mothers, who are suffering a severe mental illness, developing and building confidence in interactions with their babies.
About us
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!#TeamNottsHC
Date posted
26 January 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£22,816 to £24,336 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
186-060-24-MH
Job locations
Mother & Baby Unit, Hopewood
Foster Drive
Nottingham
NG5 3FL
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
To function as a member of a multi-disciplinary team and with the direction of a trained nurse, carry out a range of nursing and non-nursing tasks within required competencies and to assist in the care and support of patients.To report to the trained nursing staff regarding aspects of patient care and the ward environment.Spend time with mothers, and participate in carrying out therapeutic programmes in conjunction with other members of the team.To ensure that patients are supported to retain their dignity, individuality and independence.To be aware of the need for confidentiality and rights of individual patients.Support ante and post-natal women, accessing obstetric services as necessary.Support women with mental health needs during labour and delivery of baby.Be available to work on a 24 hour rolling rota inclusive of day and night shifts.
Please note that this post may not meet the pay and skill level required for a Skilled worker visa
Successful applicants with no prior NHS experience would normally be placed at the bottom of Agenda for Change Band 3. This salary is below the minimum salary required for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa. In these circumstances the Trust would not, therefore, be able to sponsor for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa.
Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship against the relevant criteria here https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa
Job responsibilities
To function as a member of a multi-disciplinary team and with the direction of a trained nurse, carry out a range of nursing and non-nursing tasks within required competencies and to assist in the care and support of patients.To report to the trained nursing staff regarding aspects of patient care and the ward environment.Spend time with mothers, and participate in carrying out therapeutic programmes in conjunction with other members of the team.To ensure that patients are supported to retain their dignity, individuality and independence.To be aware of the need for confidentiality and rights of individual patients.Support ante and post-natal women, accessing obstetric services as necessary.Support women with mental health needs during labour and delivery of baby.Be available to work on a 24 hour rolling rota inclusive of day and night shifts.
Please note that this post may not meet the pay and skill level required for a Skilled worker visa
Successful applicants with no prior NHS experience would normally be placed at the bottom of Agenda for Change Band 3. This salary is below the minimum salary required for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa. In these circumstances the Trust would not, therefore, be able to sponsor for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa.
Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship against the relevant criteria here https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa
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Additional informationDisclosure 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Mother & Baby Unit, Hopewood
Foster Drive
Nottingham
NG5 3FL
Employer's website
https://www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Mother & Baby Unit, Hopewood
Foster Drive
Nottingham
NG5 3FL
Employer's website
https://www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.