Health Care Support Worker

Job Description 

The Coborn Centre for adolescent Mental Health is a mental health hospital based at Newham Centre that provides assessment and treatment for male and female individuals experiencing acute mental health difficulties. Our vision is to provide optimum care and treatment to aid recovery and promote wellbeing prior to returning back within the community environment.

 

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the inpatient wards for an enthusiastic Band 3, Support Worker to join our busy and motivated team on Coborn Galaxy Ward.

The ward’s aim is to deliver a patient focused care that provides patients with an opportunity to better understand the crisis or behaviour that resulted in their admission and to learn coping skills to reduce the risk of relapse.

This post will require you to work a mixture of shift work (long days and night shifts).

Main duties 

To actively participate in the assessment and care plan process, caring for both mental health and physical health needs and ensuring care is individualised and truly meets the needs of the service user.

Working with registered nurses and other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team to ensure defined care is implemented, that patients are actively involved in all aspects of their care and fully understand their care.

To work as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team implementing care plans, participating in CPA’s ward reviews, Mental Health Review Tribunals and Managers Hearings ensuring that the Support Worker truly influences care.

To ensure that you promote creative and meaningful activities, both individually and in groups that promotes recovery.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people’s lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.