Health Care Support Worker - Mountain Ash, United Kingdom - Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

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Mountain Ash, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

The Merthyr CDAT is part of a wider, supportive network of community drug and alcohol and Adult Mental Health services across CTMUHB, where the successful applicant will be afforded support, and career and learning opportunities.

Merthyr & Cynon Integrated Locality Group is an incredibly friendly and welcoming service, that openly promotes development, both for the service and staff, while upholding its central core values and behaviours of listen, respect and team working.

The successful applicant will work as a member of the Community Drug & Alcohol Team under the supervision of qualified staff and in accordance with the Health care Support Worker Code of Practice.

The role will consist of clinical duties such as holding clinics for individuals with substance misuse problems and clinical administrative duties such as gathering patient information and data.

The post holder will deliver specific components of the service users care plan and will regularly be required to work without direct supervision.

Work within a Multidisciplinary Team under the direction of a registered nurse

Hold pre assessment and maintenance clinics for specific patients

With support and supervision from Registered Nurses be responsible for and manage own workload and safety

Participate in Needle Exchange and provide information regarding harm reduction

Gather information/data for relevant systems and databases

Assist in clinical administration duties

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family.

Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs:
Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:
We listen, learn and improve

We treat everyone with respect

We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.