Healthcare Support Worker

Milton Keynes Community Health Services (MKCHS) are recruiting Healthcare Support Workers for our Inpatient Intermediate Care Unit. Whether you are experienced in providing excellent patient care or just starting out, we’ll have a role for you.

You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team supporting registered healthcare professionals in providing patient’s clinical care, including monitoring, observing, and ensuring personal hygiene standards are maintained or participate to provide a range of therapeutic activities for our patients.

We are dedicated to the ongoing development of our staff; we offer a wide range of opportunities for personal and professional growth including excellent progression through various career pathways.

Our priority is hiring the person who shares our Trust Values and have the ability to work as part of a dynamic team delivering high-quality care.

You don’t need to have worked in health care before; you may have just finished education, or cared for a family member or maybe your personal experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic has meant you’ve re-evaluated your life and you’ve decided to change your career. Whatever your situation, your desire is to provide quality patient care.

Here at Central and North West London NHS Trust we provide an extensive range of specialist health services including Physical Health, Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Eating Disorders, Addictions, Sexual Health and Health and Justice across London, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. Our services are mainly provided in the community, hospitals, schools and prisons.

We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

What we offer

• 27 days’ leave (rising to 29 after 5 and to 33 after 10 years’ service)
• Enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Excellent progression through various career pathway opportunities
• Regular ongoing supervision and appraisals with optional coaching available
• Support towards the Continuous Professional Certificate
• Support to complete the Care Certificate
• Generous NHS pension
• Great maternity, paternity and adoption support
• Childcare vouchers
• Access to meaningful discounts and benefits such as cycle and travelcard loans, salary deduction schemes enabling you to buy a car and hundreds of household items whilst spreading the cost over 12 months.

Band 3 Health Care Support Worker work closely with people who use our Services, their families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services. Band 3 Health Care Support Workers are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:

• keeping the people who using our services as safe as possible by recognising the limits of the Health Care Assistant role and working closely with Registered Nurses
• contributing to the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence based policies and procedures when implementing care plans
• ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people when contributing to the implementation and evaluation of care plans.

Please complete an online application asap. Closing date is indicative only and this vacancy may close once sufficient applications have been received.

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.