Support Worker - Newport, United Kingdom - Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Isle of Wight NHS Trust

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Newport, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We are recruiting for a Mental Health Support Worker who wishes to join our team on Osborne Ward.

You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards "great people, great place".

We are looking for an innovative, motivated and enthusiastic person who has the passion, commitment and therapeutic skills to assist in delivering compassionate and high quality care to individuals who are experiencing a crisis in their mental and emotional health and wellbeing.

Our client group is diverse and you will encounter many differing mental health conditions amongst those using our service. Effective communication skills are required.

You will be expected to work a mixture of early, late, potentially long days (combination of early & late hours) and night shifts.

We like to think that all staff on Osborne Ward are part of a respectful, flexible, hard-working, welcoming and collaborative team; we expect successful applicants to support that philosophy.

Support workers on Osborne Ward contribute to a multidisciplinary team of health care professionals to ensure that the clinical, environmental and social needs of our service users are met.

Support and supervision for all staff is a fundamental part of the culture of the ward and individuals are actively encouraged to seek out learning opportunities.

To be responsible for providing the highest quality of care for people with mental ill health under the supervision of qualified staff.

To work effectively as part of a team.

To work closely with colleagues within Mental Health Service as a whole, and across other services as required.

To work with colleagues to manage people with complex needs and high levels of dependency.

Under the supervision of qualified staff, to undertake nursing needs assessments and reviews as requested.

The post holder will be expected to work alongside other staff to share and promote good practice.

To contribute to service improvements relating to mental ill health, in line with both the local and national modernisation agenda.

Across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight healthcare services are evolving and transforming to meet the continuing care needs of our population.

Now is a very exciting time to join Isle of Wight NHS Trust as we enter this period of change.

This year Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have strengthened our partnership and formed a group giving us an opportunity to work together to be innovative in improving patient care and outcomes as well as improving the experience and opportunities for our people across the two organisations.

We have also been working with other local NHS Trusts across our region to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight.

Subject to approvals, the new organisation will be called Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

As part of the move towards working as one organisation, people employed in our community, mental health and learning disability services by the Isle of Wight NHS Trust on 30 April 2024, will transfer to Southern Health Foundation Trust under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) on 1 May 2024.

On 1 st July 2024 Southern Health will become the new organisation (Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare Foundation Trust).

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust will continue to deliver both acute and ambulance services for the island population.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are C ompassion, A ccountable, R espect and E veryone counts.

Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.