Health Care Assistant - Inpatients and AFPICU
- Permanent, Full-time, Part-time
Job summary
Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment! We are pleased to be able to offer the opportunity for experienced Health Care Assistants to come and join our expanding teams on our Adult Acute Inpatients wards and Forensic Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit within the Directorate of Mental Health. Our Mental Health Services provide voluntary and in-voluntary short-term in-patient management and treatment during an acute phase of mental illness, until the person has recovered enough to be treated effectively and safely in the community.
The vacancies that we have are distributed across various wards at the Bradgate Mental Health Unit in Glenfield and the following information tells you a little bit more about the wards: We currently have vacancies within 5 of our Adult Acute wards and each ward provides care and treatment for individuals experiencing acute mental health illnesses.
- Beaumont Ward: 22 beds, mixed gender
- Watermead Ward: 20 beds, mixed gender
- Heather Ward: 18 beds, female only
- Ashby Ward: 14 beds, female only
- Bosworth Ward: 14 beds, male only
Main duties of the job
Important information about these roles Please note that the Healthcare Assistants work a rota system of Long Days (12 hr shifts) Day and Night covering a 7-day working week. We can offer Part time and Full time posts, however the minimum you will be required to work is 23 hours per week. These are also permanent roles not bank roles and we are unable to offer sponsorship.
About the role: We ask that you demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills along with the ability to problem solve and negotiate. We believe all our staff can develop leadership qualities and if you can demonstrate yours, there will be opportunities to nurture and develop them. The role offers variety, creativity and a collaborative way of delivering the highest standards of care. To do this we are looking for individuals who, like us, believe our values of Trust, Respect, Integrity and Compassion are at the heart of patient care.
About us
We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 3
Salary: £25,760 to £27,476 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
Reference number: 007341
Location: Bradgate Mental Health Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Groby Road, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 9EJ
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.
Contact
Hiring Manager: Katie Mulroy, katie.mulroy@nhs.net
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community. Apply through our website.