Health Care Support Worker

As a Senior Support Worker, you will be pivotal in providing care to our service users and will work closely with our team of qualified nurses and our wider disciplines to provide agreed care, based on the service users assessed needs. You are resilient, driven and passionate to provide high quality nursing care to patients. We are a 10 bedded female Medium Secure and Forensic ward. We explore how best to support our service users on their individual pathways through a multi-disciplinary approach. Blossom Ward is a dynamic workplace and you will be a motivated and responsive nurse managing an ever-changing environment., As a Senior Support Worker, your main responsibilities are:

• Up hold the core values of the ward promoting openness, transparency and learning
• Accurate and timely clinical documentation
• Work under the supervision of qualified staff to support our service users by being a member of care teams
• Support our service users to assess the community under supervision and accurately feedback your assessment
• Raise any concerns to senior staff
  
  Working in the Forensic Healthcare Services:Forensic mental health is a unique and fascinating field which provides both challenge and opportunity.
Being curious, creative, self-aware and assertive are important skills that you will build on, as you are often required to think 'outside the box'. We play a crucial part in supporting and advocating service users towards recovery, while maintaining the legal requirements within the MHA and of public protection. Our Trust:We provide mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire. We'd love you to join our organisation, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, with 82% recognising patient care as our top priority in our staff survey.Other key survey results include:o 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their teamo 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles