Position Overview
Bracken Ward (at the Airedale Centre for Mental Health) is looking for passionate and committed individuals to join our acute inpatient ward as Health Care Support Workers (HCSW). We are a provider of high-quality mental health, community and learning disability services across Bradford. We work with individuals, their carers and our partners to ensure that people get the right care, in the right place with the right support. We share the common goal of becoming the leading provider of integrated care for people of all ages with mental or physical health needs. Bracken Ward is the Older Peoples functional acute admissions ward, caring for those from the age of 65, who are experiencing acute mental health crisis.
Responsibilities
To provide generic care and planned interventions to the patients/clients within the Older Peoples Mental Health Acute Care Service. Provide care to patients to maintain their personal hygiene, physical health and psychological comfort ensuring that their privacy and dignity is always maintained. Under the supervision of registered health care professionals, assist the healthcare team with the provision of clinical care for a defined group of patients. Ensure patient safety is maintained and patient experience is positive by treating all patients, relatives and colleagues with respect, dignity, and courtesy in accordance with Trust values. Take leadership from an Assistant Practitioner within a delegation framework for agreed tasks. You will need to be resilient, compassionate and dedicated to providing holistic care. Patient focused and driven to helping encourage recovery of our patients.
Core Values
- We Care – We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
- We Listen – We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
- We Deliver – We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
Benefits
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives. We support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:
- Increase mileage rates for > 4500
- A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
- A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
- Plus many more
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
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