ECT Senior Healthcare Assistant | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

We are looking for a highly motivated, compassionate individual to join a well established ECT team to support with the smooth running of the ECT clinic and provide kind and compassionate care to those within our care.

You will be working with individuals with acute mental illness as well as their families and carers to support the giving of ECT treatment and recovery post treatment.

The Healthcare Worker is a key member of the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) and will have continuing responsibility as follows:

Under limited supervision from the MDT deliver an effective and competent level of care, which is determined by the patient's care plan.

Supervise the care given by Healthcare Workers and Apprentice Healthcare Workers and provide guidance and training as appropriate.

Be fully aware of the needs of patients during their time within the suite.

Act as a role model to colleagues and patients.

Monitor, report and maintain a healthy, safe and secure workplace by knowing and taking account of: Health and Safety at Work Act (1974), Reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations (1985), Control of substance Hazardous to Health (1985), European H&S Regulations (1992)-Numbers 1-6, Food Act (1996), Adhere to Trust policies and local service protocols.

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Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.