- Full Time
- Colchester
NHS Jobs
Job role: Health Care Assistant
Company name: NHS Jobs
Salary: £24,625.00 to £25,674.00 per year
Job Reference: C9364-25-0723
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About the Job:
- The St Aubyn Centre is a Child and Adolescent Unit based in the vibrant town of Colchester.
- The unit supports young people aged 13 to 18 who are experiencing severe emotional and mental health difficulties.
- We have two wards, The Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit or PICU which has 10 beds. And Longview Ward. The General Adolescent Unit which has 15 beds.
- This vacancy is for the PICU Ward.
- The unit is very proud to have an extensive Multi-Disciplinary Team consisting or Psychologists, Family Therapists, Psychotherapists, Drama and Art Therapists and teachers. We also have a very experienced medical team.
- The school is on site and our education centre has an Outstanding Ofsted Report.
- There are many training opportunities for you to further your career within the NHS. And you will be well supported by the team here.
- It takes someone with very special skills and attributes to work with our young people. And these young people are a real privilege to work with.
- If you feel that this is the job for you, please feel free to get in touch and we can answer any questions you may have.
Main duties of the job
- Supporting the young people with their activities of daily living.
- Taking young people on leave
- Note writing and reporting any concerns to the nursing team.
- Spending time with the young people and undertaking activities with them.
About us
EPUT is a progressive trust which is always looking to improve the service it offers to patients and families.
There are also many avenues for staff to progress their careers and lots of learning opportunities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Supporting young people with activities of daily living.
- Undertaking activities with the young people.
- Undertaking their physical observations,
- Writing notes on their progress throughout the day.
- Reporting concerns to the nursing team.
- Safeguarding the young people at all times.
- The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together key health, care, community, and voluntary sector organisations from across our area. Our aim is to work together in partnership to join up health and care services, improving our populations health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. One such example of this collaborative work is the launch of our HCA Academy, an ICS initiative between Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) and Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT) to support the incoming Health Care assistant (HCA) workforce. The academy models a one workforce cross system approach to the onboarding, induction, education and experience of Healthcare Assistants.
- To support this one workforce model the successful candidate for this post will be required to attend our5 day (Monday to Friday) face to face Induction Programme at our MSE ICS Education Hub at Brentwood Community Hospital. Your start date will therefore fall on one of two of the HCA Academy induction dates across the month, which will be discussed and agreed during the recruitment process.
- Our HCA Academy Induction programme has been designed to train and support the successful candidate through the early stages of their employment at EPUT and will provide opportunities to enhance skills, knowledge and experience.
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