Community Healthcare support worker

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity to come and join our friendly and supportive team.The Winchester Rural East Community Care Team provides cover to both city and a large rural community within the Winchester district working shifts between the hours of 0800 am and 2000 pm, 7 days a week.We are looking for enthusiastic individuals to fill our band 3 Health Care Support Worker role to work in our mixed professional team. This will involve caring for patients in their own homes and seeing patients in the wound clinic. You will be committed to working within a generic competency framework that enable you to have the skills to work as a valued member of the team.Applicants must have or willingness to be working towards a NVQ Level 3Access to a vehicle and possession of a full driving license is essential.Community Experience is preferred but not essential. All support and training will be given to the right applicant

Main duties of the job

To provide a supporting role to registered practitioners in the Integrated Community Team in the delivery of nursing and rehabilitative care respecting patients' privacy and dignity at all times

To perform a range of clinical nursing skills as directed by the registered practitioners:

Skin care/Pressure Ulcer prevention

Vital Signs Temp/Pulse/Lying and Standing BP/Respiratory Rate

Mouth care/Eye care/Toe nails and Finger nails

Catheter care/Bladder washouts/Stoma care

Catheterisation (under registered practitioner discretion NVQ III Training)

Continence re-assessment

Bowel care (suppositories)

Venepuncture

Basic Wound care

Simple bandaging and paste bandaging

Short stretch bandaging under supervision and after training

To assist in planning, delivering and evaluating programmes of care and rehabilitation prescribed by the registered practitioners, regularly liaising at the beginning and throughout each shift.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Granary

Western Court, Bishop's Sutton

Alresford

Hampshire

SO24 0AA

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Granary

Western Court, Bishop's Sutton

Alresford

Hampshire

SO24 0AA

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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