Health Care jobs in United Arab Emirates

We are looking for passionate and motivated Health Care Assistants to join our dedicated team at our low secure unit at the Brookfield Centre.

We provide mental health support for adults with learning disabilities (LD).

The Tarentfort Centre is a 20 bedded rehabilitation inpatient unit catering for men from the age of 18. It comprises two clinical areas: an acute and sub-acute learning disability forensic.

We specialise in the assessment and treatment of men with a learning disability whose offending behaviour and complex mental health needs require care in a low secure setting.

The ward consists of a multi-disciplinary team of health care assistants, nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists, speech and language therapists, doctors, and consultants.

Please note, that we are currently unable to offer sponsorship for Band 2 Healthcare Assistant/Support Worker roles as they do not meet the UK Visas and Immigration criteria.

The Healthcare Worker is a key member of the multidisciplinary care team and will have continuing responsibility to:

• Deliver an effective and competent level of care under the guidance and supervision of the associate workers, senior associate workers, qualified nurses, and occupational therapists, determined by the patient's care plan.
• Be fully aware of the needs of patients over a 24-hour span of care.

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 across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

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.

Support the work of the multidisciplinary team by:

• 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.
• Enabling patients to maintain and improve their independence by promoting involvement in the therapeutic activity programme.
• Noting and reporting accurately any care given and/or information required by the nurse in charge.
• Giving physical care as required or instructed.
• Promoting patients' appearance and personal hygiene by offering support, advice, and ensuring that suitable requisites are available.
• Promoting a healthy, safe, and secure environment by adhering to Trust statutory health and safety requirements and maintaining confidentiality of information at all times in compliance with Trust and Forensic & Specialists Care Group policies.
• Assisting patients and the nursing team to maintain a clean and healthy ward environment and assisting patients in all aspects of daily living skills as required.

Please see job description for full details.

• Experience in working in secure services.
• NHS Experience.
• Experience of working with Learning disabilities.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Committed to a high level of patient care.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others as part of a team.
• Full driving licence.

• Computer literate - ability to use Microsoft Packages.
• Care certificate or ability to work towards.

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