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Band 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker - Oakwood Ward, Southmead

Employer
Avon and Wiltshire Men
Location
Southmead Hospital, Bristol
Salary
Competitive salary
Closing date
13 May 2021

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Interested in supporting your local community?

Come and join us at AWP Mental Health Trust and become an NHS hero.

We are very proud of our amazing staff, who are continuing to work throughout the COVID19 pandemic, supporting people with mental health issues across the region.

We are looking for new colleagues, with a passion for helping people, to join us as Healthcare Support Workers in our team based at Southmead Hospital.

Working closely with our multi disciplinary team you will support up to 23 service users from across the region as they transition through their care pathway.

You will receive training to complete the NHS Care Certificate and a Level 3 Healthcare apprenticeship. We we will support you to develop the skills and experience needed for this role.

As an NHS employee you will have a wide range of benefits and discounts, access to the NHS pension scheme and a generous annual leave entitlement. Best of all you will have the reward of doing a job that really matters, with colleagues who care.

Please get in touch, we would love to hear from you.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Emily Bond

Ward Manager

0117 414 6630

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We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, and people living with disabilities - we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

Please apply to join us, we would love to hear from you. Any personal details you supply to us are kept safe in line with the General Data Protection Regulations.

You can submit your application via NHS Jobs and TRAC. Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system 'TRAC'. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.

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.

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