Overview
Contract Type: 0
Salary: £25,427 Incl 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata
Partner Org: Surrey and Borders Foundation Trust Partnership
Job overview
If you are looking for a step into healthcare, SABP can offer you a great environment that will enable you to develop your skills. Our flexible working patterns of short days or long days, and nights give options that support an improved work life balance.
We are excited to be recruiting to our teams.
We will provide the necessary support to ensure your development within your role. We are keen to support and develop our staff through a clear career pathway and encourage promotional opportunities within the Trust.
If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a team striving to make a difference for our community by supporting people with mental health or learning disability needs then we want to hear from you.
Victoria Ward consists of 20 beds for older persons suffering from an acute mental health crisis – as a result of conditions such as depression and bi-polar disorder. We provide admission for persons in the South West Surrey district who are in need of short stay inpatient individual assessment, treatment and rehabilitation.
Please Note: We do not support Sponsorship for this Role.
Main duties of the job
- To observe report and record changes in the clients physical, mental health and behaviour
- To provide care for people who use our services as planned in Multi – disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings
- To be aware of and work to the principles of the Mental Health Act (MHA)
- To give and receive clear messages by telephone and or personal contact
- To provide the necessary physical care to people who use our services to help them complete daily living activities
- To act in a manner to respect the customs, individuality, values, sexuality and spiritual beliefs, activity, supporting the individual to fulfil these
- To provide social activities, emotional support and stability people who use our services to ensure effective engagement whilst maintaining professional boundaries
- To contribute in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluating care
- To create and maintain professional supportive relationships with all members of staff with other professionals and agencies to enhance recovery
- To provide escort duties to people who use our services under the direction of the nurse in charge.
- To carry out observations as per individual care plans, client needs, in line with HPT Trust Policy
- To participate in where required co-facilitate in therapeutic and social engagement group work.
- To undertake prescribed physical l observations
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Eligibility to high cost area supplement is conditional upon candidates residence and will be discussed on offer.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- IT Skills Level 1
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working as a paid or unpaid carer is desirable but not essential
- Suitable for someone who is looking for a busy and challenging environment to develop and establish effective working relationships and who has a passion for supporting people to help deliver high quality care
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Completed Care Certificate Programme
Desirable criteria
- An NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care is desirable but not essential
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.
Gender Pay Gap Action
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
Sponsorship
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
