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Requirements

Personal Requirements:

• Patience
• Good communication skills
• Physially fit
• Commitment to the rights of people to live dignified lives.
• The ability to work as part of a team.

Personal Skill Requirements:

• Must have a minimum of 6 months experience
• Valid Moving & Handling
• Health & Safety
• First Aid certificates (Training will be provided if necessary)

Mandatory Requirements:

• Proof of address
• Passport
• Visa (if required)
• NI Card
• Written proof of:

  • Rubella
  • Varicella
  • TB
  • Tetanus
  • Hep B

• Driving Licence & Business Insurance (Dom Care & Transport)
• Two References (must be from recent employment)
• CRB Check (Completed with VKL)
• Valid Pin (Nurses)

RMN Job Profile:

VKL mental health nurses work with adolescents, adults and older people suffering from various mental health conditions. The work involves helping people to recover from their illness or come to terms with it in order to maximise their life potential. Mental health nurses liaise with psychiatrists, psychologists, occupational therapists, GPs, social workers and other health professionals to plan and deliver care using a multidisciplinary patient-centred approach. As a registered mental health nurse (RMN), you may work with patients in their own homes, in a community health care centre, a hospital outpatients department, for transportation of clients, a specialist unit, or a secure residential unit.

Healthcare Assistant Job Profile:

VKL Healthcare Assistants provide care and support to individuals within the mental health sector, clients own homes and also nursing and residential home environments. Your role is to ensure service users receive safe, individualised and effective standards of care, at all times, whilst maintaining confidentiality. When on assignments you are accountable to the Nurse/Care Manager, and will conduct yourself as directed by senior management and staff. You will ensure that the highest standard of service is provided at all times, in a way that meets the individual care needs of service users, whilst respecting their rights, privacy and dignity. Your aim is to maintain and improve an individuals independence by creating opportunities which take into account personal choice and preference, enabling individuals to exercise control over their lifes direction and personal affairs, whilst meeting their physical, social, health and emotional needs. You will be required to work as part of a team and to represent VKL in a friendly, efficient and professional manner. You must complete the care activities assigned to you using the best of your abilities and are expected to assist in your own personal development. In order to fulfill the requirements of the position you must be in general good health, able to withstand the pressures of assignments.