Job vacancy: Healthcare Support Worker, Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust, Sittingbourne | trac.jobs

Job summary Main area Community Adult Mental Health Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week Job ref 380-NK268 Employer Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Swale CMHT, Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital Town Sittingbourne Salary £25,760 - £27,476 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing Today at 23:59 Employer heading Healthcare Support Worker Band 3 We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance. Here are some clips of our Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us Would you like to work flexibly?  In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Job overview We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Healthcare Support Worker to join us at Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital. This comes at a time of transformation in mental health services under the community mental health framework. Our main focus is to collaboratively work with service users to promote engagement and to facilitate an optimum level of independence and self-management. Our expectation is that you will endeavour to establish therapeutic relationships within which to address recovery goals in order to help service users to gain access to a range of resources and services to facilitate involvement and connection with the local community. Main duties of the job Monitor physical health and mental health outcomes of those attending the clinic. To provide and support physical health assessments, and relevant physical health interventions to support service users with mental conditions to improve their physical health and overall well-being. Primary focus on service users with longer term mental health needs, primarily with severe mental health problems such as psychosis. To support and work alongside registered mental health nurses, registered general nurses, pharmacy technicians and pharmacist in the clinic team. To work with service users and relevant staff to develop mental and physical health care plans and monitor health and social outcomes of clinic clients. To promote positive physical and mental health to service users, carers, families and staff. To be familiar with and able to use medical devices and to be able to accurately record readings and have an understanding of normal abnormal parameters. To be take blood as part of physical health monitoring. To take p