Senior Healthcare Assistant

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

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Job summary

There is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Healthcare Worker (fixed term part-time) to join an experienced multi-disciplinary team working in the community based at Laurel House near Canterbury city centre.

Under the guidance and supervision of the team, you will deliver an effective and competent level of care to adults with a Learning Disability who also have ADHD. You will be involved in assisting patients and their carers to attend appointments to be reviewed by a psychiatrist and advocating for them, which may require liaising with other agencies, such as their social care teams and other community teams.

Main duties of the job

Support the Multi Disciplinary Team by:

• Offering appropriate support and advice to the patients in our care, and accurately recording all care given as required on to RiO and validating own entries.
• Providing physical health care & physical health checks as required or instructed, documenting the physical health checks on RiO.
• Supporting and carrying out patient therapeutic observation checks as required and instructed.
• Assisting patients and the carers to attend appointments in a community clinic setting if requested.
• Working closely with the MDT and communicating information to the patient and carer under the instruction of the medical staff.
• Undertaking all relevant training as directed and participating in regular management/clinical supervision and appraisal.
• Seeking advice and support if there are complex issues, for example, issues relating to safeguarding.

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 are rated 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 mission is what we set out to do every day: We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people.

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

Job responsibilities

Please see the separately attached Job Description and Person Specification where you will find details of the job description and the main responsibilities.

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

• Good general education. Competent in literacy and numeracy or ability to work towards GCSE or equivalent.
• Experience in health / social care settings.

Experience

• Experience of working in healthcare / social care settings.
• Previous work with the NHS. Interest in working with people with a learning disability.

Knowledge & Skills

• Awareness of mental health disorders / learning disabilities / ADHD.

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.

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust