Bank Mental Healthcare Assistant

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

Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey, and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis, and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot, and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South-East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.

If you have answered yes and are an experienced CA that holds a Frimley NHS Trust Health Care Certificate, currently on our bank or substantive care assistant, then we would like to hear from you., Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We have an opportunity for you to apply to have a bank posting as a MHCA which will have paid training wrapped around this (x2 training days will be paid at current Band 2 bank rates). On successful training completion you will then be able to pick up bank shifts at MHCA B3 level alongside your substantive position or bank CA Band 2 shifts. This is open for the first x100 current band 2 CA workers to apply for in this application window period. Should we receive this number of applicants before the closing date, we have the right to close the advert. Please apply and submit your application early to avoid disappointment!
The Band 3 Bank Mental Health Care Assistant role supports and cares for patients with various mental health conditions through close engagement and observation. This 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 patient 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