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Partnerships in Care is one of the UK`s leading providers of independent specialist secure and step-down care across the UK. With hospitals around the country, 30 years of experience in our sector and highly skilled and experienced teams, we help patients and commissioners find the right care pathways without the need for multiple reassessments.
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The Dene is holding Recruitment Open Days on Friday, 10th March 2017, from 8:00am - 6:00pm and on Saturday, 11th March 2017, from 10:00am - 2:00pm.
If you would like more information or would like to attend open day please contact our recruitment mailbox:dene.recruitment@partnershipsincare.co.uk
The Dene is renowned for its work with women using a DBT approach to address their care needs.
We work with the most difficult women and support them through their care pathway back into the community. We have a strong care pathway via our medium secure, low secure and our new inpatient service for women with high dependency needs (HDU) and, through Pelham woods, back into the community. We have also devised an award winning risk management tool.
The Dene also provides an acute service for men and women for those who are having a short period of acute illness. The care pathway is provided via their home treatment team or services in the locality linking closely with their established care team.
If you are passionate about offering high quality care to patients with mental health needs, and would like a long, rewarding and fulfilling career, then we would welcome your application to work for Partnerships in Care at The Dene in Goddards Green, Hassocks (near Brighton), either on a full time, part time or flexible basis.
As a Health Care Worker you will be working within a team that includes a range of professionals. You will work under the supervision of a qualified nurse and will need to have good communication skills, excellent team working skills, be highly self-motivated with a flexible approach, and have some appreciation of mental health problems.
The Dene supports patients with varying needs in its female medium secure, low secure and acute wards, and male acute ward. Set in 11 acres of beautiful Sussex countryside, it has extensive educational, occupational and sporting facilities, including a sports hall, tennis court, swimming pool and gymnasium, along with various communal recreation areas. There`s also a library, a purpose built art room and workshop, and two practice kitchens.
The Dene is renowned for its work in the field of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and schema therapy with women to support them through their care pathway via the secure and acute inpatient service for women with high dependency needs and through to the community via the inpatient rehabilitation service at Pelham Woods in Dorking.
If you are interested in finding out more about working for The Dene, please e-mail Dene.Recruitment@partnershipsincare.co.uk to book a time to either, come down and meet us, or to speak to us.
All positions with Partnerships in Care (PiC) are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. Unless specifically commissioned in advance, PiC will not consider applications submitted by or through agencies.
Qualifications/Experience
Skills and Knowledge
- Good communication skills
- Ability to work flexibility
- Basic Literacy skills
- Common sense approach to problem solving.
- Basic numeracy skills
- Motivation and initiative
- Some appreciation of Mental Health problems.
Qualifications
- Education to GCSE Standard
- NVQ or equivalent would be an advantage.
About our benefits
- A competitive salary
- 25 days annual leave (increasing by a further day for every 2 years of service) to a maximum of 30
- Contributory pension scheme
- Life insurance
- Opportunities to develop and progress in a wide variety of care settings.
- Free car parking
- Free on site meals
- Employee benefits scheme (eg, discounted shopping vouchers, interest free Apple Products loan scheme)
- Full onsite induction training and orientation programme
About us
From education to hospitals, care homes and secure facilities, the Priory Group of Companies offers individually tailored, multidisciplinary treatment programmes for those with complex educational needs or requiring acute, long-term and respite mental he
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