Mental Health Care Assistants
A Mental Health Care Assistant provides basic care and assistance with daily activities to patients with mental illnesses or cognitive disabilities. Helps patients dress and eat, monitors patients' well-being, and restrains patients if they become physically violent. Works in hospitals or mental health care facilities.
About this Career
Average Salary
£33,035New workers start at around £13,954. Normal pay is £33,035 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £49,194
Annual Openings
118Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons in London, and do not distinguish between full and part-time jobs
Daily Tasks
- Discusses student’s progress with parents and other teaching professionals.
- Updates and maintains students’ records to monitor development and progress.
- Liaises with other professionals, such as social workers, speech and language therapists and educational psychologists.
- Supervises students in classroom and maintains discipline.
- Prepares, assigns and corrects exercises to record and evaluate students’ progress.
- Encourages the student to develop self-help skills to circumvent the limitations imposed by their disability.
- Develops and adapts conventional teaching methods to meet the individual student’s needs.
- Gives instruction, using techniques appropriate to the student’s disability.
- Assesses student’s abilities, identifies student’s needs and devises curriculum and rota of teaching duties accordingly.
- Creates a safe, stimulating and supportive learning environment for students.
Skills Employers are looking for
| Skills | Importance |
|---|---|
| Learning Strategies | 83% |
| Monitoring | 73% |
| Active Listening | 70% |
| Reading Comprehension | 70% |
| Speaking | 68% |
| Writing | 68% |
| Active Learning | 66% |
| Critical Thinking | 65% |
| Mathematics | 54% |
| Science | 34% |