Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 3, Health Care Support Worker to join the Basingstoke Older Persons Mental Health Community Team

The team is a highly supportive and innovative team that aspires to provide a responsive, safe, effective, caring service that is well led.

Older Peoples Mental Health Services is looking for a motivated health care support worker to provide and deliver skilled interventions to older people with mental health needs within the Basingstoke district

The role involves providing post diagnostic support to those diagnosed with dementia supporting individuals with other mental health diagnosis to feel included in the community to continue to manage their own wellbeing and independence at home and provide support and signposting to families and their carers

To be a successful member of our team you will need to be motivated passionate and have a genuine interest in working with older people and be able to demonstrate a real commitment to providing high quality and compassionate care to patients and their families

Main duties of the job

To provide physical and psychological care to service users in accordance with the specified plan of clinical care and in line with the recovery model to service users who live in any part of the catchment area.

To carry out duties as designated by the team leader.

To provide support to the person responsible for the clinical care of the service user.

To accurately record service user information.

To provide support to relatives/carers.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.