Healthcare Assistant Home Based Intermediate Care
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Job summary
This is a new and exciting job role working within the Sandwell Home Based Intermediate Care team (HBIC) supporting patients efficiently within their own homes.
Would you like to work in a supportive and friendly team who are innovative and put person centred care at the heart of everything we do?If yes, then this is the job for you. We are looking for a B3 Healthcare Assistant who believes in the value of quick intervention and nursing support to maintain peoples safety and independence at home.
The HBIC team works as part of a wider integrated Directorate (iCares) working with people at home who have mobility or other healthcare needs. This includes intensive community rehab, nursing support and admission avoidance delivered by a multi-disciplinary team.
We work closely with our colleagues in Urgent Community Response, Locality teams and Virtual Wards, which means working closely with the wider Multi-disciplinary Team
Our team work closely with patients to support and manage issues at home where possible and safe to do so. You will be supporting nurses and the wider MDT to achieve best possible patient centred outcomes.Your line manager will be one of the nurses in the team and no one works in isolation. You will receive support and supervisions from your line manager who will be based within the team.
Due to current service needs, we are only able to accept those who have a NVQ Level 3 Healthcare or Equivalent
Main duties of the job
- Provide the intensity healthcare support for people in the community.
- To work closely and collaboratively with colleagues from the wider team, local authority and third sector.
- To support the HBIC team in assessing and supporting patients in need of support in the community.
- To bring value and compassion into everything you do.
About us
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises.As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding.The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
Details
Date posted
29 November 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£22,816 to £24,336 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
381-CT-5848276
Job locations
Lyng Centre For Health and Rowley Regis Hospital
Frank Fisher Way
West Bromwich
B70 7AW
Employer details
Employer name
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
Address
Lyng Centre For Health and Rowley Regis Hospital
Frank Fisher Way
West Bromwich
B70 7AW
Employer's website
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