Senior Healthcare Support Worker - Lincoln, United Kingdom - Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Are you a positive, friendly and upbeat person who likes helping others?If so, we have the perfect role for you. Join our brilliant team as a Healthcare Support Worker.
Healthcare Support Workers are the beating heart of our clinical teams providing essential support to people in our care.
Alongside registered practitioners, you will be helping people struggling with their mental health, including issues such as self harm and suicidal thoughts and dementia.
For example, you could choose to work on an inpatient ward for older people in North Hykeham, Lincoln or to work in the community along the East Coast.
There are many options available.The team is made up of nurses, doctors, occupational therapists and healthcare workers amongst others. We all work really closely together, supporting each other and getting on really well
- it's a bit like a big family
Our services run 24 hours a day and for some roles you may be needed to work shifts over 7 days.
Teaching and supporting life skills, such as using public transport, paying for bills, managing a home to live independently, helping with personal care, shopping and meal preparation, engaging in hobbies/Interests and communicating with others.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work.
In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.
We're really proud of this
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions.
We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
As well as all the usual NHS benefits, LPFT also provides an enhanced benefits package including early access to psychological support and physiotherapy, support with transport and travel, financial wellbeing packages and discounts.
- To work within the policies, protocols and clinical procedures of Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Trust and to promote competent working practice within an integrated multidisciplinary team.
- To liaise with the nurses and carry out assigned duties as a member of the multi
- To be prepared to work on own initiative as necessary and report to the Nurses.
- Promote equality for all patients and understand their health needs.
- Demonstrate an awareness of service user and carer perspectives on the provision of treatment and continuing care.
- Participate regularly in clinical supervision sessions.
- Liaise with representatives from associated voluntary and statutory organisations and facilitate good communication processes.
- Attend inservice training and other study / refresher days to meet individual, statutory and service needs.
- Participate in performance reviews.
- To work with service users to promote independence, maximising daily living skills.
- Assist in maintaining general and specific patient observations under the supervision of registered nursing staff.
- Facilitate and participate in recreational and physical activities in the provision of health and social care to service users.
- Demonstrate an
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