Job overview

Job Title: Bank Healthcare Support Worker

Pay Band: Band 3

Reports to: Ward Manager / Senior Nurse

Accountable to: BSU Manager / Ward Manager

Location/Site/Base: In Patient

Please be aware before you apply:

• This role is not available for Sponsorship due to the nature of it being a zero hours contract.
• Where you have a Visa, please add your Visa 'valid till' date onto your application.
• Successful candidates will need to be able to complete a 5 day RRP, (reducing restrictive practice) training week to work as a Bank HCSW in LPFT, this follows a successful Occupational Health referral report.

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities for direct/indirect patient care:

• Acknowledge personal limitations in respect of competencies required to undertake the role, taking on responsibility to deliver and provide personal care activities in liaison with the supervising nursing and nursing team. 
• Implements care according to the service user’s individual care plan.
• Participates in all recreational, leisure and any other therapeutic, physical or social activities in the provision of health and social care to service users.

Responsibilities for policy and service development implementation:

• Carry out safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, commenting on policies, procedures and developments as necessary.

Responsibilities for financial and physical resources:

• Use safely in accordance with manufacturers guidance clinical equipment in the performance of their work to appropriate high standards of care.
• Inform the supervising nurse of any shortages of stock and supplies including any defects in clinical equipment used.

Responsibilities for human resources (including training):

• Participate in performance review, supervision and undertake mandatory training and personal development as required of the post including competency development.

Responsibilities for information resources:

• Record all self-generated information within the service users' clinical notes and/or using the Trust’s clinical information system (Maracis) under the direct supervision of a nurse.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

Working as a Bank employee for the Trust is demanding, but a highly fulfilling role, where you will be contributing to service improvements, building a strong foundation for continued professional development and with the opportunity to grow your career within LPFT.