Trainee Healthcare Support Worker

Open the door to your NHS career today. Discover how you can earn while you learn.

Join our Healthcare Support Worker development (HCSWD) programme, where you will learn on the job at Melbury Lodge under Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. If you have no healthcare experience, you'll join our 6-month supervised placement. If you have some experience, you will be fast tracked via our 3-month placement.

Pay Rates:

Days: £11.44, Saturdays/Nights: £16.13, Sunday/Bank Hols: £20.94

Why might this job interest you?

During your placement, you'll work towards achieving the widely recognised Care Certificate with the training you need to become a Healthcare Support Worker (HCSW). Also known as Healthcare Assistant (HCA). Throughout, you'll have supportive supervision from your mentor/Ward Manager.

Once you've graduated as a HCSW, you can progress your career by accessing further training. This career path may lead to potential roles such as Senior Healthcare Assistant to Assistant Practitioner or Nursing Associate, enabling further career avenues such as a Nurse or Midwife.

Where will you be working?

Clover ward is our Mother and Baby Unit and is available to women who have severe mental illness from 32 weeks of pregnancy until a child is one year old. Women outside of Hampshire can be referred to the Unit.

Sherwood have 12 male beds and provide mental health care which is recovery focused and treatment for adults who have severe mental illness.

We encourage you to do further research about the wards before making an application.

Benefits of joining

By joining, you can receive some exciting benefits:

• Career Progression - Achieve a Care Certificate and begin your journey with the NHS.
• Weekly pay - Work this week, get paid next week.
• Paid annual leave - Build holiday allowance.
• Provide patient care - Provide care, safety, and welfare for patients.
• Join the NHS family - Become part of a healthcare team.
• Dedicated trainingand supervised shifts - Support from your ward / area and skilled mentors.

As a trainee HCSW in Mental Health, you'll learn key skills, such as:

• Taking basic observations, explaining treatment, and updating patient records.
• To observe report and record changes in the clients physical, mental health and behaviour under supervision of Registered Nurses
• To provide the necessary physical care to clients to help them complete daily living activities ie personal hygiene, diet and fluid intake, clothing and laundry, personal environment, elimination, maintaining rest and sleep and activity, physical observations
• Supervising patients to ensure their safety, managing common emergencies, and performing risk assessments.
• To provide social activities, emotional support and stability to clients to ensure effective engagement whilst maintaining professional boundaries
• Comply with Trust and local policies and procedures including Safeguarding, Infection Prevention and Control.

The benefits we can offer you in return:

• Career progression - Achieve a Care Certificate and begin your healthcare career with the NHS.
• Weekly pay - Access your wages more quickly.
• Join the NHS family - Become part of a respected healthcare team and provide patient care.
• Dedicated training and supervised shifts - Support from your ward / area and skilled mentors.
• Development opportunities via the Trust.
• Webinar support - Regular monthly sessions covering the Care Certificate workbook, Conflict Management training and more.

What you'll need:

• We will consider applicants without any healthcare experience as well as those with at least 3 months healthcare experience within the last 2 years.
• A passion for care as well as following the six enduring values that underpin 'compassion in practice'. The 6Cs are defined as: Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage, and Commitment.
• To be over the age of 18 or turning 18 before placement.
• Able to work at least 30 hours a week across earlies, lates and nights during the programme.
• Once the placement has finished, the position will be made permanent under the Trust rather than doing shifts on NHSP Bank.

What's next?

If you're successful, you'll be invited to an interview and assessment day on 22nd May 2024, followed by a 4-day classroom training from 17th - 20th June 2024 and an induction week before you start.

"As a result of the HCSWD programme, I am now a qualified Healthcare Support Worker and currently pursuing my dream to qualify as a Nurse." Lynda Akpan, HCSW

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Disclaimer

Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly. We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.