Mental Health Care Assistant

If you are looking for work that suits your lifestyle andneeds, becoming a Mental Health Support Worker, for the bank at University Hospital Southampton could be right for you.

NHS Professionals are currently recruiting for Mental Health Care Assistants at Southampton General Hospital.

As a bank worker you can work flexibly to support the teamwith patients with Mental Health difficulties.

Pay Rates are as follows:

Monday-Friday - £12.51 per hour

Saturday - £17.64 per hour

Sunday - £22.90 per hour

The demand is for DAYS so please only apply if you can work DAY SHIFTS

Supporting patients with mental and emotional issues under the supervision of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals.

Assisting patients in performing their daily activities, monitoring their progress, and observing their personal and social behaviours.

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

NHS Professionals (NHSP), owned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), works in partnership with hospital trusts to provide a bank of highly skilled temporary workers who want to work flexibly within the NHS.

Working through the NHSP bank means

Trusts dont have to rely on expensive agencies. Right now, we have over
130,000 members registered on our bank from various roles, grades, and specialities, saving the NHS over £70 million each year. This money isthen reinvested back into the NHS.

To listen and talk to patient sand their carers and develop therapeutic relationships

To undertake and accurately document observations and nursing care in line with Trust policy

To accurately report and feedback any concerns

To understand the importance of,and maintain the need for confidentiality in all patient matters

To participate in the maintenance of a clean, tidy, and safe environment

To value diversity and promote equality of opportunity for all and to ensue individuals are treated fairly

Attend to patients personal hygiene, including bathing, toileting, and dressing, promoting quality of lifeand independence

To act as a positive role modelto the patients and staff

To demonstrate appropriatede-escalation skills in managing aggression exhibited by service users, subjectto achieving agreed training and competency in Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression techniques

Escort patients as appropriate toother areas of the hospital or the hospital grounds as delegated by a trained member of staff

Completion of regular physical health observations, including the recording of these. Also completing the physical health paperwork within the admission process, including smoking/alcohol recording forms

• MUST HOLD VALID PMVA CERT
• WE ARE ONLY LOOKING FOR HCA WHO CAN WORK DAYS IDEALLY MONDAY-FRIDAY

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.