Health Care Assistant - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Sunflower House is a well-established Tier 4 children's mental health inpatient service and part of Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust.

It is commissioned by NHS England to provide specialist assessment, treatment, T4 Consultation and Multi-Disciplinary opinion across Cheshire, Wirral and Merseyside but also accepts from across and outside of England where appropriate/services cannot be provided regionally.

We are an inpatient mental health facility, designed to help children and young people up to the age of 13 years with:

A primary diagnosis of mental illness including children with neurodevelopmental disorders (ASD and mild/borderline co-morbid learning difficulties), physical disabilities or those with social care problems as secondary needs.
Severe and complex needs that cannot be safely managed within Tier 3 CAMHS
Severe and complex needs that cannot be adequately assessed within a Tier 3 environment.

Working under defined supervision and support structures, under the direction of the senior nurse, developing and utilising basic observation, therapeutic communication and relationship skills, to support day-to-day working with complex and challenging children and their families you will carry out duties allocated by the senior nurse which will include:

Assisting in maintaining and developing a high standard of patient care, by demonstrating an awareness of individual needs, following defined nursing care plans and working within related policies and procedures.
Contributing towards effective communication by reporting to the nurse in charge any information given by a patient/relative, incident or individual observation which may affect a patient's physical or mental well-being.
Understanding the importance of, and maintaining the need for confidentiality in all patient matters.
Working as an assistant in therapeutic activities, group work and life skills with the support and guidance of senior staff.
Enabling young people to participate in community based activities.
Participating in and facilitating the maintenance of a clean, tidy and safe environment by following clearly defined health and safety guidelines.
Actively accessing and participating in the supervision, support and development processes which will enable further development of the range of therapeutic activities, observations and communication skills necessary for the post.

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care to over 275,000 children and young people each year.

In addition to the hospital site located in the West Derby area of Liverpool, Alder Hey has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients' homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man.

We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites.

We're also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours.

At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:

Great flexible working opportunities
Discounted gym membership
Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
Generous annual leave and pension scheme
Extensive staff health and wellbeing programmes

Clinical tasks:

Defined clinical observations of the child/young person and accurate recording of relevant information.
Supporting activities of selfhelp/daily living i.e. getting up/going to bed, washing, dressing, diet, etc.
Supporting attendance and participation in education (hospital and community).
Supporting attendance and participation in daily individual and group activities (hospital and community) e.g. swimming, badminton, cooking, art etc.
Safe and therapeutic management of challenging behaviours and/or emotional distress as per defined nursing care plans.
Ongoing risk assessments of patients and the environment.
Delivery of specified and individualised care plans.
Clinical incident reporting.
Attendance and participation in clinical supervision and support processes.
Specific training and utilisation of deescalation, distraction and positive behavioural support approaches including restrictive interventions.

Housekeeping tasks: