Mental Health Support Worker

Location: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Pay scale: £10.80 - £15.54 per hour
Job type: zero hour

Job description

Come and join our team at DNA Care Services. As a family owned and run business, we help our customers deliver care to adults (and sometimes children) with Autism, Mental Health needs, Learning Disabilities and Brain Injury’s. Due to expansion, we are looking for caring Health Care Assistants to join our dedicated team of flexible professional staff.

Experience in care is not essential however, a passion for ensuring the people we and our customers support have fun and fulfilled lives. It takes a caring, dedicated, and flexible person to be a Health Care Assistant at DNA.

In this role, you will provide care and support for patients, whilst always maintaining respect and dignity. This is a varied role as you will be supporting patients in line with their care plans, so no two days will be the same.

Working environment is working on medium to low secure mental health units, working with patients with a broad range of mental health conditions such as schizophrenia, bi-polar, and spectrum disorders.

Duties include carrying out one to one and two to one observations, and regular checks such as every 15-minute checks. Level of checks would depend on the risk level of the patient/s.

Successful applicants would also carry out daily activities with patients to help further their rehabilitation and integration back into the community.

Physical intervention training will be provided by DNA Care Services. This training is an integral part of working in a medium to low secure unit, and handling verbal and physical aggression that can sometimes be displayed by the patient type.