Healthcare Assistant

Are you passionate about Older Person's Mental Health Nursing? Are you looking for a demanding but rewarding career? An exciting opportunity has arisen; we are currently recruiting a HCA for our Functional Ward, Sunniside. The ward is situated in the grounds of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead.

We are looking for caring, empathetic, enthusiastic and motivated individuals, who have a desire to improve the lives of Older People suffering from Mental Health Problems.

Gateshead Health NHS, Foundation Trust are committed to lifelong learning and offer support to enhance your knowledge and skills, to further your professional development. This is a great opportunity to develop your skills and experience within a supportive team.

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym
ICORE;
Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme  to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.

The post holder will work as part of the multi-disciplinary team, and central in supporting patient to recover. Communicating with patients, relatives and carers. Assisting with clinical duties. Personal care including infection prevention and control, food, personal hygiene and overall reassurance, comfort and safety.

You will possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, be motivated to engage within our patient group & ward environment.

• Qualifications - NVQ L2
• Qualifications - NVQ L3
• Working with people with diverse needs
• Experience working with people with Mental Health issues
• Experience working within a Team
• Demonstrate a caring and mature outlook
• Good communication, interpersonal and organisational skills
• Appreciation of the importance of confidentiality

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Sunniside Older People Mental Health Ward