Healthcare Support Worker - Torquay Health & Wellbeing Team

Job description

Job responsibilities

• An ability to effectively communicate routine information to patients/carers where co-operation is required and where there may be barriers to understanding
• Assisting trained nurses in delivering a high standard of holistic nursing care to patients in the home environment, within the dimensions of the post
• Implementing delegated, planned and appropriate aspects of nursing and social care unsupervised and being responsible for informing the Community Nurse Team Leader/Nurse in charge of observations relating to patient care

Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification.

Ability to travel efficiently around the Bay is important in order to carry out your duties (e.g. Full driving licence and vehicle).

Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications and training

Essential

• NVQ level 2 with evidence of working towards level 3

Desirable

• NVQ level 3 in Health

Knowledge and experience

Essential

• Basic IT skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to maintain accurate written records

Desirable

• Broad range of simple nursing procedures eg. Venepuncture, BP monitoring, basic wound care.

Specific Skills

Essential

• The ability to liaise efficiently and effectively with patients/carers, a wide range of health and social care workers GP's and formal and voluntary care providers within the primary care setting

Desirable

• Experience of working within the primary care setting

Requirements due to work environment/conditions

Essential

• The ability to work independently in a potentially unpredictable and occasionally highly unpleasant working environment; to include body fluids and working in extreme weather conditions
• The ability to be flexible, according to patient and workload requirements

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Torquay ISU

Union House, 89 Union Street

Torquay

TQ1 3YA

Employer's website

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