Job summary
Home Care Support Worker (Reablement)
Support to Go Home Service
Full time 37.5hours per week or part time considered
The Support to Go Home Service is looking for a 'Home Care Support Worker' to join their team.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with previous experience of working in a health or social care environment, to care and support patients in their safe recovery at home, upon their discharge from hospital.
If you're passionate about providing person centred care and looking for a career in the NHS then this role is for you. We want to help develop your career by supporting you with the opportunity to progress once you have met set competencies and training requirements.
As part of this role the "In Reach" project is an exciting new opportunity within the team which will allow support workers to provide reablement to patients on the wards, for those whom are clinically well. This gives an exciting opportunity to reablement support workers, to enable patients to make progression in hospital, preventing further deconditioning, potentially reducing the services they need for discharge. This also allows reablement support workers to build rapport with patients and give them an insight to our service before we take them home under Discharge to Assess Pathway 1 and provide a reablement service in their own home.
Main duties of the job
Within this exciting role you will have the opportunity to support patients to become more independent with daily living tasks following their discharge from hospital, this includes supporting with personal care, meals, and mobility. You will also have the opportunity of supporting and providing palliative care for patients that are at the end of their life.
As this role is supporting patients in their homes, you will be required to travel across the region and will have access to Trust pool cars.
We can support full time and part time working, and as the service works over 7 days, we can offer flexibility with either early or late shifts between the hours of 7.30am - 10pm.
We want to support your career in the NHS and can support you with training opportunities via a development program that can see you progress to a Band 3 Senior Home Care Support Worker.
For further information please contact Jenny McCaughan on 01284 713568.
About us
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see job description for full details.
Providing high quality care and support following discharge, the post holder will be required to:
- Promote peoples equality, diversity and rights.
- Recognise and adapt practice in accordance with peoples own faith, religion and personal views.
- Take appropriate precautions to maintain confidentiality and patient dignity at all times.
- Undertake agreed clinical activities with individuals under the guidance of registered staff.
- Support and deliver all aspects of personal care as may be necessary for the individual patient/client.
- To contribute to the management of dietary and fluid intake and client continence. Including assisting individuals to make regular use of appropriate toilet facilities. Implement and monitor agreed toileting programmes. Assist individuals to use equipment such as sheaths, catheter bags and incontinence pads. Assist individuals, where appropriate, to maintain diet and fluid intake through advising and planning meals and drinks in conjunction with the appropriate nutrition risk assessment tool.
- Assist with appropriate feeding techniques for management of swallowing problems
- Deliver treatment plans as directed and report back on performance and difficulties.
- Check feet and report any concerns
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see job description for full details.
Providing high quality care and support following discharge, the post holder will be required to:
- Promote peoples equality, diversity and rights.
- Recognise and adapt practice in accordance with peoples own faith, religion and personal views.
- Take appropriate precautions to maintain confidentiality and patient dignity at all times.
- Undertake agreed clinical activities with individuals under the guidance of registered staff.
- Support and deliver all aspects of personal care as may be necessary for the individual patient/client.
- To contribute to the management of dietary and fluid intake and client continence. Including assisting individuals to make regular use of appropriate toilet facilities. Implement and monitor agreed toileting programmes. Assist individuals to use equipment such as sheaths, catheter bags and incontinence pads. Assist individuals, where appropriate, to maintain diet and fluid intake through advising and planning meals and drinks in conjunction with the appropriate nutrition risk assessment tool.
- Assist with appropriate feeding techniques for management of swallowing problems
- Deliver treatment plans as directed and report back on performance and difficulties.
- Check feet and report any concerns
Person Specification
Education & Qualification
Essential
- Level 1 Qualification or equivalent in both Maths and English
Desirable
- Care Certificate
- Level II NVQ - Health related or commitment to achieve within first year.
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Previous relevant experience of working in health or social care environment
- Awareness of the needs of vulnerable people including older people
- Experience of caring for others in a positive and respectful manner
- Experience of working in a customer/focused environment
Desirable
- Previous experience of NHS/Social Care/Voluntary organisation
- Understanding of Intermediate Care Services
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Excellent organisation skills/time management
- Ability to work to clear protocols/guidelines within role boundaries
- Person centred practice
Desirable
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Commitment to delivering a consistent professional high standard
- Confidence to work and challenge within a multidisciplinary team
- Flexible approach to working hours and duties
- Ability to problem solve
- Ability to prioritise and work under pressure
- Ability to work on own initiative and as a team player
- Commitment to continued personal and professional development
- Represent and promote the service in a professional manner
- Ability to travel to rural locations to carry out post
Person Specification
Education & Qualification
Essential
- Level 1 Qualification or equivalent in both Maths and English
Desirable
- Care Certificate
- Level II NVQ - Health related or commitment to achieve within first year.
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Previous relevant experience of working in health or social care environment
- Awareness of the needs of vulnerable people including older people
- Experience of caring for others in a positive and respectful manner
- Experience of working in a customer/focused environment
Desirable
- Previous experience of NHS/Social Care/Voluntary organisation
- Understanding of Intermediate Care Services
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Excellent organisation skills/time management
- Ability to work to clear protocols/guidelines within role boundaries
- Person centred practice
Desirable
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Commitment to delivering a consistent professional high standard
- Confidence to work and challenge within a multidisciplinary team
- Flexible approach to working hours and duties
- Ability to problem solve
- Ability to prioritise and work under pressure
- Ability to work on own initiative and as a team player
- Commitment to continued personal and professional development
- Represent and promote the service in a professional manner
- Ability to travel to rural locations to carry out post
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
