Bank Mental Healthcare Assistant

Job summary

Band 3 Bank Mental Health Care Assistant For Frimley Site Long Days!

Are you caring, considerate, can work under pressure and have a passion to support a patient when they are at the most vulnerable?

There will be a total of 9 days paid training. On successfully completing the training you can then pick up bank shifts at MHCA B3 level.

The Band 3 Bank Mental Health Care Assistant role supports and cares for patients with various mental health conditions through close engagement and observation. The bank worker role will require experience of delivering the CA role to high standard and experience in de-escalating patients through excellent communicational skills. Although this role is focussed on the mental health support of enhanced care to the patient group this role will still involve providing all personal care as required for the patients e.g., toileting, feeding, hygiene needs and taking vital signs. These roles are to ensure we have the appropriate level of supervision and observation in place for those patients who require enhanced care observation. These circumstances may be due to the following examples (This list is not exhaustive).

• the patient is acutely physically or mentally ill
• the patient may be likely to wander and/or abscond,
• the patient may be confused, at risk of falls or at risk of self-harm.
• the patient may be acutely ill and/or requiring frequent observations.
• the patient may have expressed suicidal ideation

Main duties of the job

• To undertake enhanced care duties for our patients as guided by their care plan and patient enhanced care risk assessment. Unsupervised assigned tasks within the ward/clinical team and report the outcomes to a qualified nurse.
• Assist in the provision of care both through verbal de-escalation skills and wider conversational communicational skills.
• To provide support, where appropriate, to relatives and carers as required.
• To support the qualified nurses and be directed and supervised by them to undertake assigned enhanced care tasks.
• Develop and maintain a good working relationship with patients during your shift and to always ensure patient safety

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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