Clinical Support Worker - Band 3 - Willow Ward, Woodlands Hospital inIpswich inIpswich PUBLISHED
WED 6 NOV 2024
The trust emphasises its core values of positivity, respect, and teamwork, and encourages individuals with prior experience in support work or those starting their careers in mental health to apply. The position offers professional development opportunities, NHS pension benefits, a starting annual leave of 27 days (increasing to 33 with service), and various NHS discounts, fostering a supportive and collaborative work environment.
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We have an exciting opportunity to join our fantastic team based in Ipswich, we are looking for a Band 3 Clinical Support Worker that is passionate about recovery led care with a focus on promoting least restrictive practice on Willow Ward, our mixed sex Later Life Acute Inpatient unit based at Woodlands Hospital located within Ipswich Hospital Site.
Willow Ward provides intense treatment for service users who are at their most vulnerable. Our team provides care and treatment at the most critical time in their mental health recovery and supports services users with both functional and organic diagnoses. There are several things we focus on as a team to provide a high standard of care: the design of our environment maximises safety, therapy and security. We also deliver our care alongside a multidisciplinary team of highly skilled staff; our staff are specialist within mental health and we work with established staffing levels to minimise risks and to work in a therapeutic way.
Do you want to be a part of our team?
If you are an experienced Support Worker looking to develop your skills or someone looking to start your career within mental health, this could be a perfect opportunity!
Main duties of the job
As a trust we are looking for individuals that exhibit our values and reflect these within their practice: Positively, Respectfully and Together.
We are looking for passionate and high-spirited who can be a part of our amazing team to improve services for our service users. We want people to be proactive, creative and innovative to advocate for our service users and develop our service further.
You will need to attend mandatory and statutory training and aware of operational policy and procedures to ensure safe and high standard care is delivered alongside the team.
If you want to change the face of inpatient care and make positive impact on people's lives, then we would love you to be a part of our incredible team.
About us
Please dont miss this opportunity!
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other and are looking forward to welcoming you!
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Some of the benefits you can expect:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
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