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Social Care Support Worker
Location: Portland HMP Verne
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Salary: £24,071-£25,674 per annum, dependent on experience
We are proud to be working with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust who have recently been voted by the Sunday Times as one of the Best Places to Work 2023.
Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.
As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, they are now able to expand their recruitment and are looking for compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Social Care Support Workers to join their friendly team based in Portland, Dorset.
The healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and Oxleas pride themselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients future resettlement back into the community. Oxleas deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
As part of the team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
What will you be doing?
Provide physical care to clients in accordance with their care plan
Communicate effectively with clients and the multi-disciplinary team
Inform the Social Care Lead and/or Registered Nurse as soon as possible when any change in a client's condition is noticed
Report any complaints or requests for information from clients to the Social Care Lead in a timely manner to enable prompt response
Respond to the needs of clients in an honest, non-judgemental and open manner, which respects the rights of individuals and groups
Understand the need for, and assisting clients to attain, optimal physical health and assisting with physical procedures in support of a Registered Nurse
The post of Social Care Support Worker will cover 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with the following shifts;
07:30-20:00
19:30-08:00
From time to time clients outside of the Social Care Unit may need support with personal hygiene. This will be provided by the Social Care Support Worker role, in conjunction with a care plan from Dorset Council.
What do you need?
- Complete secondary education or equivalent
- Ability to read English and communicate it verbally and in writing to a good standard
- 1 year working in a primary care, social care or mental health setting
What next?
If this is a role youre interested in, and you want to join the team and help make a difference, please click on the apply button. You will be redirected to a page where you can enter your details, answer a few questions about your experience, and attach your CV. Someone will then be in touch with you to provide you with next steps.
Interested? Click apply now!
