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Job role: Health Care Assistant
Company name: NHS Jobs
Salary: £24,625.00 to £25,674.00 per year
Job Reference: C9327-25-0587
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About the Job:
We are offering a permanent Band 3 Support Worker post, for 30 hours per week.
People with a severe and enduring mental health problem are statistically more likely to experience a physical health problem. Over 37% of people with a mental health problem also have a long-term physical health problem.
We are looking for a motivated individual with experience of working in a Mental Health and/or Physical Health setting to be part our of newly established Physical Health clinics. The purpose of this team is to address some of the inequalities in health within mental health services and offer our service users monitoring and signposting to appropriate services.
The post holder will work closely across a range of teams including later life, recovery and assertive outreach teams to deliver comprehensive annual health checks and co-develop care plans to enable service users to access the support they need to address their physical and mental health needs and promote recovery. Excellent communication skills and the ability to work flexibly to meet the service user’s physical health needs is essential.
The service will operate largely in a clinic-based environment at Colliers Court, Cinderford with some home visits where clinically indicated and the post holder will need to work autonomously.
There may also be requests to cross cover over our other sites within Gloucestershire.
Main duties of the job
Completion of physical health checks in line with national and local requirements for a caseload of patients with mental health diagnoses. Workload will be allocated as checks become due, the results will be documented and appropriate advice and onward referral to other services completed. The post holder will be provided with supervision provided by a senior member of the team who will coordinate activity.
Based upon the results of the observations and interviews, suitable advice and referral will be provided to the patient
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