Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Healthcare Support Worker
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We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Healthcare Support Worker to join us at Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital.
This comes at a time of transformation in mental health services under the community mental health framework.
Our main focus is to collaboratively work with service users to promote engagement and to facilitate an optimum level of independence and self-management.
Our expectation is that you will endeavour to establish therapeutic relationships within which to address recovery goals in order to help service users to gain access to a range of resources and services to facilitate involvement and connection with the local community.
- Monitor physical health and mental health outcomes of those attending the clinic.
- To provide and support physical health assessments, and relevant physical health interventions to support service users with mental conditions to improve their physical health and overall well-being.
- Primary focus on service users with longer term mental health needs, primarily with severe mental health problems such as psychosis.
- To support and work alongside registered mental health nurses, registered general nurses, pharmacy technicians and pharmacist in the clinic team.
- To work with service users and relevant staff to develop mental and physical health care plans and monitor health and social outcomes of clinic clients.
- To promote positive physical and mental health to service users, carers, families and staff.
- To be familiar with and able to use medical devices and to be able to accurately record readings and have an understanding of normal abnormal parameters.
- To be take blood as part of physical health monitoring.
- To take part in regular completing of clinical data and information. data on clinical IT systems.
- To support service users to think more about their health needs and identify their own health goals, and to support monitoring goals identified with other members of the team
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We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
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Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.
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For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Alexander Bridge
- Job title: Clinical Lead Nurse
- Email address: alex.bridge@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01795508222
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