Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- 12 months (12 month Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift work - mixture of days and nights (12.5 hour shifts))
- Job ref
- 246-CEN7275938
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Blickling ward, Julian Hospital
- Town
- Norwich
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 Gross per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Support Worker - Blickling Ward
Band 3
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience
Please note, NSFT uses tools to screen any applications generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Job overview
If you have a passion for helping people the timing couldn't be better - come and see what NSFT have to offer!
It's more than just a job, it's a chance to make a real difference for our service users doing what you love.
Join our Blickling Ward team, where all our people are valued, can thrive and make a difference.
We are looking to recruit 2 x Clinical Support Workers to join our Blickling ward team based at Julian Hospital for a fixed term - 12 months (maternity cover).
Main duties of the job
You need to be kind, supportive and express the below listed qualities to provide the best care to our service users and their families:
- Be approachable and interested in people
- Be confident in talking with people and comfortable with helping people from diverse range of backgrounds, sexual orientation, culture, religion.
- Have the ability to empathise without giving advice before speaking with your clinical team
- Have non-judgmental attitude and be an active lister
- Be perceptive to notice changes
- Be calm in difficult circumstances or in crisis
- Be able to protect boundaries especially in distressing situations
- Have an awareness of and the ability to adhere to strict confidentiality rules
- Have a good awareness of safeguarding
Working for our organisation
You must be available to commit and work on a shift pattern, which includes days, nights, and weekends:
- 7.00 am - 19.30 pm
- 19.00 pm – 7.30 am
**** Unfortunately, we will NOT offer just nights or just weekend shifts.
What we can offer you...
We want to support you to succeed and be your very best with opportunities for training and development; along with the support of experienced managers, team members and pastoral mentors.
Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through generous annual leave (starting at 27 days and rising with service to 32 days), a cycle to work scheme, discounted gym vouchers and access to a free employee assistance service 24 hours a day. We also understand the importance of financial health and offer membership of the NHS pension scheme. You will also be able to access discounts to supermarkets and high street stores.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Our primary focus is on collaborative working, placing great emphasis on patient centred care.
Blickling ward is a 18 bed ward for assessment and treatment. We care for older adults (female patients) who have a functional diagnosis. Often the patients also have complex presentations and a variety of physical health concerns. As a ward, we provide holistic patient centred care, specific to each individual.
What we can offer you...
We want to make working for NSFT a great experience for everyone, and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To support an inclusive environment where colleagues feel empowered to bring their whole self to work, we support a variety of staff networks, including the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ Equality Network, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and Gender Equality network.
We are committed to being open and transparent around our processes and we endeavour to offer every candidate the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process.
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!
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience within the care sector
Desirable criteria
- Experience in Mental Health
Other
Essential criteria
- Fitness to undergo personal safety training.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Care Certificate – must be achieved within first 12 weeks of employment
- NVQ L2/3 in H&SC or Diploma L2/3 in H&SC or apprenticeship L2/3 in H&SC
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work without direct supervision, liaising appropriately with other practitioners in the team
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Florin Buga
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01603978474
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