A Mental Health care worker operates under many different job titles, these could be “Counsellor”. “Clinician”, “Therapist” and many more titles.

What may consist of a Mental Health worker’s responsibility?

Provide Patient Care
Assisted Living
Development Plans
Monitoring physical mental health for patients and service users
Going out on visits to patients
Leading therapy sessions
Keeping records

What is the role of a Mental Health Support Worker?

A Few Examples of a mental health support worker can include support people with mental health experiences such as Bipolar Disorder, BPD, Addiction, Schizophrenia, and anxiety disorders. Mental Health conditions are sometimes complex to diagnose as we know everyone is different and conditions can affect in many serious ways a person’s day to day life.

Key Responsibilities being a Mental Health Support Worker

Mental health support workers work alongside individuals with mental illnesses in order to help them cope more and more easily with their daily lives and activities in addition to providing them with vital support in order for them to help achieve their goals. Often it is important for a mental health support worker to take on a diversity of roles when working with an individual patient, there are times acting as a carer whilst other times offering emotional support and being there as a friend if it is required. Mental Health support workers usually are part of a diverse nursing team working under the supervision of a Registered nurse (RGN)

Typically, a Mental Health worker’s duty will include the provision of therapy or assisting in the basic care to patients that have developmental disabilities or any form of mental illnesses. For example, a mental health support worker can help the individual prepare cooked meals or support them with their essential daily activities like getting ready or if needed administration of any medication. Here at Secure Healthcare Solutions, we offer all training needed for you to progress in your care career if this is something that you want to get into.

Skills that a Mental health Support Worker Requires:

Being a Mental Health support worker isn’t the easiest job although it is particularly a rewarding job, if you are the type of individual that is keen to help make difference in people’s lives then it is for you if you take great pride in being a witness first hand to the impact of an individual with any mental health illness. Typically, a mental health support worker requires certain traits such as being able to remain patient with people when dealing with trying circumstances or emotional behavior. You must also be able to be accepting of other people’s lifestyles and understand how that individual’s mental health issues have a massive impact on their lives. The most important skill is that a mental health support worker is to remain calm in a stressful situation and be flexible enough to be dealing with a range of different behaviors that may present certain challenges.

How Does Someone get an assigned Mental Health Support Worker?

If you or a loved one suffer and have been impacted by a mental illness causing a struggle to cope with your everyday life, then you need to do the following:
Contact your Local authority (LA) or someone who is in charge of providing public services. Your LA is responsible for ensuring that individuals with eligible needs get the care and support needed. These are often determined by an assessment being done which will come to a conclusion whether or not a person is entitled to the support in the form of a support worker or social care.

An assessment will take place, they take into consideration your living situation and whether or not your wellbeing is being affected by your mental illness.

Secure Healthcare has many positions for Mental Health Support workers, to enquire please click the link below:
https://securehealthcaresolutions.co.uk/candidate-registration/

Being a Healthcare Assistant means is a very meaningful and rewarding job. Most importantly you are a front-line worker ensuring quality care and support is provided to those who require it. Providing care and the support needed for service users either within their own homes or in a residential home. We appreciate every single Healthcare Assistant who dedicates their lives to helping others.

The 6 Cs of care:

Compassion

Commitment

Care

Competency

Courage

Communication

Amy is one of our Healthcare assistants:

“ I work as a healthcare assistant in residential care for the elderly and people who require mental support. A typical start to the day is 08:00 am just after a handover from the night staff. Normally they go room to room assisting the residents either getting out of bed or going to prep the food for them. Some sit in either chair or on the side of the bed while others stay in bed and then wait for their breakfast. After this is completed, we then proceed to help the patients get ready.”

Regular tasks that are performed by health care assistants are personal care, washing, and turning patients, (Secure Healthcare Solutions provide Basic life support and Manual Handling training for all staff which is needed). Toileting, Incontinence care, mobilizing, feeding. It can also include observation reports for any possible problems that may have occurred.

Being a Healthcare Assistant is a very rewarding job. Although the days follow a similar routine, it does vary. Healthcare Assistants play a hands-on role with the people they care for. Over time they tend to build relationships of trust and respect the individuals and their own families.

Working as a Healthcare Assistant can also be a bit stressful from time to time. Some tasks are not the most pleasant but it is necessary at the time. It can be both physically and emotionally demanding. Some of the clients you provide a service of care to require a high demand of assistance and you have to be able to deal with it inevitably, times it could be dealing with their deaths too. Healthcare assistants are involved in shift patterns and they also require 24-hour care.

My time working nights as a Healthcare Assistant (HCA)

“A Nightshift is a bit different from a day shift when working in care. Personally, I would say I prefer night shifts compared to the day shifts; I normally prefer working nights. During the night shifts, I normally start around 8 pm so this means I would come in a bit earlier around 20-30 minutes earlier. During this time, I would receive a handover on what was done on the day, make myself something to drink, and prepare any documentation needed.”

“ I have been working in the Care sectors for 3 years now and I can never of asked for a better and more rewarding job”

Secure Healthcare Solutions offers many positions of being a Healthcare Assistant in and around the west midlands area.

For more opportunities Secure Healthcare Solutions has to offer please click on the link below:

https://securehealthcaresolutions.co.uk/jobs/

1. Dyslexia
2. ADHD
3. Dyscalculia
4. Dysgraphia
5. Dyspraxia

Dyslexia:
Dyslexia is a general term for a disorder that involves difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols, but this does not affect general intelligence. Study shows that most people think that Dyslexia causes people to reverse letters and numbers and see words backward. Reversals do happen but this is a normal part of the development and is seen in most kids until they reach a bit older. This makes it hard to understand short or familiar words or to sound out longer words.

ADHD:
ADHD stands for attention deficit hyperactive disorder. It is a medical condition. A person with ADHD has differences within the brain development system and brain activity that affects attention, the ability to sit still, and self-control. ADHD can affect children and adults in school, at home, and in friendships. People diagnosed with ADHD have a harder time staying focused. ADHD can make it difficult to keep behavior under control. This means kids and teenagers may get into more trouble.

Dyscalculia:
Dyscalculia is a specific and persistent difficulty in understanding numbers that can lead to a diverse range of difficulties with mathematics. It will be unexpected in relation to age, level of education, and experience and it occurs across a variety of all ages and abilities. Dyscalculia is only a learning disorder related to maths, people can still exceed in other subjects such as English or History.

Dysgraphia:
Dysgraphia can appear as difficulties when spelling and or troubling writing down thoughts. Dysgraphia is a neurological disorder that generally appears when children learn to write. Experts are not sure what causes it, but early treatment can help prevent or reduce the problem. Symptoms of Dysgraphia can be children having unclear, irregular, or inconsistent handwriting. Often children with different slants, shapes and children who have problems with upper- and lower-case letters. They also tend to write or copy things in a slow manner.

Learning Disability — A mature caucasian woman and her teenage daughter who is using a wheelchair and has physical and mental disabilities. They are outdoors, on a tree-lined path, and surrounded by golden fallen leaves. They are face to face sharing a lovely moment.

Dyspraxia:
Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) also known as dyspraxia, this is a condition affecting physical coordination. This causes a child to perform less well than expected in the daily activities for their age and appear to move “clumsy”

Some symptoms of Dyspraxia are:
 Poor Balance
 Poor Posture
 Lack of Integration of the two sides of the body
 Lack of Rhythm when dancing, doing aerobics
 Clumsy gait and movement
 Exaggerated ‘accessor movements’ such as flapping arms when running
 Tendency to fall or trip and bump into things

Secure Healthcare Solutions can accommodate the service user with each one of these disorders, we have a positive behavioral support practitioner who resources the correct candidates to fit the needs of the service user. Secure Healthcare solutions support and provide a service of care to Learning Disability service users. This can vary from 6hours to 24-hour support either in the community or in the comfort of their own home.

For more information follow our website
https://securehealthcaresolutions.co.uk/about-us/
or call 0121 285 9449

Secure Healthcare Solutions offers a variety amount of support in our Domiciliary Care Department. These calls vary from single care calls to double care calls. Secure Healthcare Solutions provides a service of care to Adults and Children with a variety of needs.

Some our Domiciliary services we provide are supporting children in the process of going to school. Our carers provide a service where they start getting the users ready for their journeys and provide a transport for them to go to their school.

Our Domiciliary carer services also provide a community service where Secure Healthcare Solutions help children with conditions where they don’t have much confidence of going out in the community, this is where we come in, we would provide the right amount of care and progress to get them back out so they can enjoy their lives like their peers.

The advantages of Domiciliary care:

– Allows your loved ones to retain their independence
– Stability
– Flexible
– Affordable
– One-on-one care
– Sharing your personal space

For more information, please click on the link below:
Secure Healthcare Solutions

Why join our Domiciliary care department:
We have rewarding Community care jobs available. We have packages in:
– Cannock
– Walsall
– Wolverhampton
– Dudley

Working with Secure Healthcare Solutions you will be providing a service of care to elderly clients who would require personal care and assistance with the administration of their medication. Secure Healthcare Solutions also has clients with who have Dementia, where they would provide care for a few hours of the day whilst family are away to come in and support with their day-to-day activities such as preparing their foods and making sure they are okay in the environment they are in.

Rehabilitation support is also a service of care our Domiciliary care department provide. This is to support our service users with the right amount of care to help our service users get back, keep, or to improve abilities that you need for day-to-day life activities.

According to the World Health Organization, there are more than 50% of people do not receive the rehabilitation services they require. Rehabilitation services amongst the health services most severely disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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We also provide a service of care called Respite Care. Respite care provides a short-term relief for care givers. It can be arranged for just an afternoon for a few days or even a few weeks. Our Domiciliary care team find the right carers for a few hours of the day to provide a in home service for your loved ones.

Secure Healthcare Solution’s Domiciliary care department also provide a Domestic service where our team community carers will come out and help preparation of the house such as cleaning and preparation of any food. This is mainly for our elderly patients who require the support. Here at Secure Healthcare Solutions, we ask that we let our family take care of yours. To Join our team, click on the link below for many more positions we have or request a call back from our team: CLICK HERE

Nurses in the UK are at risk of losing their jobs for not having the vaccine unless they are medically exempt. Nurse Jobs are at risk and will affect the NHS and other private hospitality sectors will have a staff shortage. These are our frontline workers that risk their lives every day to provide a service of care.

People who should not receive the vaccine:
Pregnant Women
Children Under 16 (Moderna)
Children under 18 (AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine and Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine)
History of an allergic reaction (anaphylaxis) to ingredients in the vaccine, if you are unsure about this, before being vaccinated please ask a member of staff

Following the guidelines of Public Health England, all Nurses are required to have their vaccination by April 1^st, 2022.

Nurses working in a care home or a home setting sector will require to show proof of the Covid-19 vaccine to employers to be able to enter the care home or service user’s house. The government has made it mandatory for Carers and Nurses to take both doses of the vaccine if they would want to proceed with their career in the Healthcare Sector.

According to Communitycare.co.uk, there will be a loss of 38,000 workers at an approximate recruitment cost to providers of £94m. Surveys from over 100 members in November 2021 found out that 23% have anticipated losing a quarter or more of their workforce and many more to lose in the future.

The Care Quality Commission have said that the high rising of the vaccines and falling numbers or the jobs that are filled shows that employers were finding it extremely difficult to find the right people to fill roles for vulnerable service users who need the support to go on with their day-to-day activities

Approximately 27 million people have received both doses of the vaccine to provide the maximum protection for themselves. Secure Healthcare Solutions highly recommends individuals in the healthcare sector especially those who are Nurses to be vaccinated to help protect against the threat of the new variant.

Click the link below to find Walk-in Vaccination Centres near you:

Find a walk-in coronavirus covid-19 vaccination site

What Secure Healthcare Solutions has to offer:

Here at Secure Healthcare Solutions, we have vacancies for Nurses jobs across the West Midlands and East Midlands area, in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Tipton, Dudley, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, and Shropshire Area.

Nurse Jobs are available in Wolverhampton, Stoke, Shrewsbury, Birmingham, and many more. If you are interested or know anyone who is interested, please follow our website

or call 0121 285 94499 to talk to one of our recruitment consultants for a thorough breakdown of what we have available, our consultants will be able to guide you in the right direction.

At Secure Healthcare, we are an ever-growing company that provides care and staff built on people. We strive to provide the best quality care and support to individuals across the Midlands and Staffordshire. Every member of our team is a valuable part in our journey to ensure that we achieve this together. We are committed to doing everything we can to help you realise your potential.

The identifying potential is the heart of everything we do. We believe that healthcare workers have the potential to achieve. At Secure you are in the right place, by providing the right support, training and development and career planning, there is potential to progress your career with us.

Within the company, if you are invested and committed, the support is there to make you progress your career with us.

Here at Secure, alongside telling individuals that we value them. We work closely with our staff to ensure they have a clear progression path, with a personalised learning plan to allow our staff achieve their next goal and these plans are constantly updated.

How does Secure Healthcare Solutions support work/life balance?
Our healthcare staff at Secure love their work, and we understand that everyone have their own lives too, Everyone, has their own commitments, such as children care, interests and hobbies and challenges occurring in society. Secure healthcare supports a flexible way to make this happen to create a work life balance. We want individuals to feel comfortable and happy in their personal life and at work.

Staff progression within the company
Here at Secure, over 70% of staff have been promoted internally, we are always providing opportunities with the company. There are always opportunities to get to your next step, whether it is a healthcare role or a role within the office, we are here to support you all the way.

How does Secure reward Staff?
Here at Secure healthcare, we offer competitive salaries to all our staff and pick up a lot of extra shifts to increase annual earnings. We offer flexible working hours to our staff to allow them have a good work life balance, so they can do the things they enjoy. We also have referral schemes, for healthcare staff referred, this allows you to increase your annual earnings.

Training opportunities at Secure Healthcare Solutions
Here at Secure, we heavily invest in training for our staff. We have a clinical team that provides healthcare training and soft skill development to ensure that you are up to date with training, to ensure quality care and support is provided. For example, you may start your journey as a domiciliary carer which requires no care experience, you would just need to be passionate about providing care and progress your career to become a complex carer through training and qualifications that we are able to provided you.

We are a nursing agency in Wolverhampton and we have many healthcare jobs across the Midlands and Staffordshire, offering flexible shifts to suit your availability and we offer high rates of pay. If you are seeking to secure a role within the healthcare industry, then check out our domiciliary roles, HCA, Complex carers and nurse roles local to you within the West Midlands and Staffordshire, using our job search tool or contact us on 0121 285 9449 to find out more. Pick up as many shifts as you want and choose shifts around your availability.

We all understand that being a registered general nurse is a job that can be very demanding at times, by doing long hours, changing shift patterns and dealing with endless number of patients with different needs. Achieving the ideal work-life balance is something that we all strive to achieved, particularly when you are in a profession that involves putting the needs of other before your own.

Research carried out by the health and safety executive indicates that 9 in 10 registered general nurses in the healthcare sector admit feeling more stressed and anxious. This is why it is important to put in place ways that will help you maintain a steady work-life balance. There are various different ways to accomplish a positive work-life balance. Below are a few helpful tips to inspire you and encourage you to achieve a better work-life balance.

Excercise
When you have had a busy day on the ward, it is important that you exercise to improve your mental and physical well-being. Exercise allows you to release any built-up stress and allows you to focus on something aside from work. This allows you to detach yourself from stresses experienced during the day. When you have finished your shifts, it is best to schedule exercise straight after work, this could be doing a workout at the gym, after your shift, completing a home workout or going on a run. It is important to ensure routine of exercising at least three times a week to take your mind off things and help you relax. Switching off from work is important to reduce stress and take your mind off things.

Balanced Diet
When doing long shift patterns and working a lot of days, having a balanced diet can be difficult to fit in, however it is important that you are feeding your body with nutrients to ensure your body feels energised. This will help you care for patients and during your days off, you will feel more refreshed to undertake other activities and spend time with loved ones. It is important to eat a healthy balanced diet that is full of vitamins, protein and having the right amount of fats and carbohydrates to keep you energised throughout the day.

Undertake a hobby
During your time away from work, it is important to undertake a hobby to take your mind off things. If it important to discover something your passionate about doing, you may have to try a few things before finding something that you really enjoy. Examples of this could include, ice skating, painting, swimming, painting, yoga and much more.

Socialise
During your time out of work it is important to socialise with friends and family, it could be spending time on video call or going out for shopping or a meal to take your mind off work stresses. This is likely to put you in positive moods by treating yourself, friends and family.

We are a nursing agency in Wolverhampton and we have many registered nurse jobs across the Midlands and Staffordshire, offering flexible shifts to suit your availability and we offer high rates of pay. Check out our job search tool to discover roles local to you or contact our recruitment team on 0121 285 9449 to find out more about our registered general nurse, registered learning disability and registered mental nurse roles to secure, and secure a role with us today. We have a team of specialist nurses and we are continuously looking to grow our team by working with you.

Complex care in a home care environment: Tim’s success story

Check out our short video to discover how our healthcare team have supported Tim, our passionate wolves fan in a home care environment, around her loved ones.

If yourself or your loved ones are seeking extra care and support, flexible around individual needs, then check out our home care services by clicking here

We understand that there are individuals that have no healthcare experience and are highly passionate about providing care, and also healthcare workers that may have experience of working in care homes or nursing homes that may want a new challenge to work as a home care carer. Working with service users in the comfort of their own home allows you to develop a healthier relationship to provide the best quality care and support. Providing personal care with service users regularly in their home allows you become close with individuals and build trust, which is important to prevent loneliness. Starting your journey as a home carer, requires no experience and full training is provided.

By working in a home care environment, it is a chance to make a difference to lives of people within your community, by providing the best quality support and care. Home care provides you an opportunity to make a difference to improve the routine of peoples lives who need your care and support.

Working in care homes allows you to use transferable skills and apply them effectively within a home care environment to progress your career in the healthcare industry. Providing Healthcare at home is a great opportunity to adapt your skills and allow you to progress your career within care. Through developing healthy relationships with service users, one of the most important skills it develops is, interpersonal skills which is one the most important skills when providing care and support.

Secure Healthcare provides flexible opportunities when working within a home care environment, this gives you the opportunity to do other things around your personal commitments. Within a home care environment service users there will be individuals that require basic care and other individuals may be need more complex care. You may be required to spend a few hours with service users or spend time for longer periods of time.

Duties within a home care environment include:

– Assisting with washing and dressing
– Support with getting patients in and out of bed
– Help with going to the toilet
– Preparing daily meals
– Talking to the patient and providing the individual company
– Support with household tasks
– Helping patients get around the house
– Administering basic medicines

A domiciliary care role is great way to start your healthcare journey, for this role no healthcare experience is required and full training is provided. It can open up an opportunity to become a care manager, alongside the experience you will need the RMA qualification, NVQ 4, or QCF diploma. To find out more about how to become a care manager click here.

If you looking to start your journey within the healthcare sector with a healthcare agency in the West Midlands, then look no further, as we have care jobs available, if a domiciliary care worker role is of interest to you then apply by clicking here. We have flexible part time and full-time domiciliary roles across Wolverhampton, Cannock and Walsall, offering rewarding salaries and pick up as many shifts as you require around your availability.

Or contact us on 01902 303017 to find out more and secure a role with us today.

Joining a nursing agency is a great way to earn extra money, compared to working directly for the NHS. As a Healthcare agency jobs provider, we reward our healthcare staff with higher salaries and more flexible shifts to work within different environments such as hospitals, care homes and for home care. Below we will highlight some top tips from our recruitment team to speed up your application process when registering for a nursing agency.

Work experience
For a job in the healthcare sector majority of the roles will require you to have experience in a clinical area. We require our candidates to have 6 months experience in the last 2 years for registered general nurse roles, HCA roles and complex carers. For a domiciliary care position, where care is provided in a home care setting, we do not require you to have any experience, individuals just need to be passionate about providing care and support and have access to a vehicle, we provide full training and qualifications.

Documentation
It is important that all documents related to your nursing career are kept safe and secure and nearby, so you can quickly provide these when requested by the nursing agency. This is also important for when registered nurses revalidate their registration with the NMC. Some of the important documents required, include CV, outlining previous job experiences, qualifications, NMC registration evidence, DBS certificates, identification proof, evidence of residence and paying bills.

Training and compliance records
Training and compliance are one of the most important things required when working within healthcare, it is important that training and qualifications are u to date and completed before you start working with us. Service users have individual client needs and here at Secure healthcare it is important that we provide training to accommodate these needs. It is important to keep documented evidence of all training and compliance certificates, competency sign offs, training matrix’s and materials, DBS checks, references and much more.

Interviews
For our healthcare positions, recruitment consultants initially pre-screen potential candidates to identify if they have the relevant experience to meet our service users needs. After the pre- screening process, if individuals have relevant experience, an interview will be conducted, either in the office or remotely, by a video call. We expect individuals to sell themselves and be professional and treat the interview as a formal process.

Employment contracts
For employment contracts we recommend that you keep copies of any employment and payslips as evidence of employment. This is important for proof of employment and when changing companies, it is important to ensure that you are not getting over taxed.

We are a healthcare agency in Wolverhampton and we have many registered nurse jobs, healthcare assistant, domiciliary care and complex carer roles, across the Midlands and Staffordshire, offering flexible shifts to suit your availability and we offer high rates of pay. Check out our job search tool to discover roles local to you or contact our recruitment team on 0121 285 9449 to find out more about out our roles and secure a role with us today. We have a team of specialist healthcare workers and we are continuously looking to grow our team by working with you.