• Job Description

  Req#: C9380-25-0390?language=en&page=487&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  It's an exciting time to join our dynamic and innovative team Do you want to develop your skills, with the backing of a well-developed team and make a difference to the recovery of our patients? If the answer is yes, we want you to join us!

  Heather Ward ward is a 15-bedded Male acute mental health in-patient unit. We specialise in the assessment and treatment of adults with complex mental health needs.

  This can be a challenging, yet rewarding environment and requires excellent organisation skills and the ability to use your initiative. The Healthcare Worker is a key member of the multidisciplinary care team and will have continuing responsibility as follows:

  Under limited supervision from a senior associate worker, qualified nurse, occupational therapist or the nurse in charge, deliver an effective and competent level of care, which is determined by the patient's care plan.

  Main duties of the job

  • Support the work of the multidisciplinary team
  • Consistently delivering a patient focused service, which promotes optimum independence.
  • Offering appropriate support and advice to the patients.
  • Recording accurately all care given as required.
  • Enable patients to maintain and improve their independence by promoting active involvement in the therapeutic activity programme.
  • Noting and reporting accurately any care given and/or information required by the nurse in charge.
  • Give physical care as required or instructed.
  • Promote patient's appearance and personal hygiene by offering support/advice in self care and ensuring that suitable toiletries are available.
  • Promote a healthy, safe and secure environment by adhering to Trust statutory health and safety requirements and maintain confidentiality of information at all times in compliance with the Trust Policies.
  • Assist patients to maintain a clean and healthy ward environment and assist them in all aspects of daily living skills as required.
  • Supervise the care given by band 2 healthcare workers.
  • Be fully aware of the needs of patients over a 24hr span of care.

  About us

  Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

  We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We arerated Good overall by the CQC.

  Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

  We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

  You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

  The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

  Our strategy

  Our mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

  Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

  Check out our recruitment videos Recruitment - YouTube

  Details

  Date posted

  08 May 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 3

  Salary

  £24,625 to £25,674 a year per annum

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  380-AC0700

  Job locations

  St Martins Hospital

  Little Bourne Road

  Canterbury

  CT1 1AZ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience of working within Mental Health/Learning Disabilities setting

  Desirable

  • NHS Experience
  • Experience of Forensic setting

  Knowledge and Skills

  Essential

  • Have a good understanding of mental health conditions appropriate to the setting
  • Numeracy and Literacy Skills
  • Able to communicate effectively with a wide range of people
  • Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
  • Working knowledge of relevant policies and procedures

  Training and Qulaifications

  Essential

  • Care Certificate completed
  • Health or Social Care Qualification (Level 3 or equivalent)
  • Computer Literate

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience of working within Mental Health/Learning Disabilities setting

  Desirable

  • NHS Experience
  • Experience of Forensic setting

  Knowledge and Skills

  Essential

  • Have a good understanding of mental health conditions appropriate to the setting
  • Numeracy and Literacy Skills
  • Able to communicate effectively with a wide range of people
  • Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
  • Working knowledge of relevant policies and procedures

  Training and Qulaifications

  Essential

  • Care Certificate completed
  • Health or Social Care Qualification (Level 3 or equivalent)
  • Computer Literate

  Disclosure 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.

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

  Address

  St Martins Hospital

  Little Bourne Road

  Canterbury

  CT1 1AZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

  Address

  St Martins Hospital

  Little Bourne Road

  Canterbury

  CT1 1AZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.kmpt.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.

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