Generic Therapy Worker - Felixstowe

Job summary

Felixstowe Community Healthcare Team has an opening for a permanent full time 37.5 hours per week B3 Generic Worker to work alongside the District and Community Nurses.

The Felixstowe Community Healthcare service is part of a wider Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) consisting of district & community nurses, generic workers, community matron, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and Social Care Workers led by a B7 registered health team lead and overall managed by an INT manager.

The team is busy, dynamic and proud of their holistic care approach. The team continues to change to support developments in NHS which includes close-working relationships with the local statutory, non-statutory and voluntary services including GP, acute hospital colleagues, GP Federation, Social Prescribers, SuffolkMind, NSFT and many local community voluntary groups.

You will be actively supported by regular supervision and individual annual appraisal. You will be expected to work autonomously and on behalf of the patients served by the local area. You will have access to skills development training relevant to the post.

The role involves providing nursing interventions to the housebound residents of Felixstowe and surrounding area, who are 18 and over and registered with a Felixstowe GP. Our main aim is to support, maintain and encourage people to make healthy lifestyle choices in the ageing well process.

Main duties of the job

1. Complete delegated assessments and apply competency based treatment/care/interventions to patients under the supervision of a registered practitioner, following a prescribed treatment/care plan.
2. Understand own role in delivering care, enabling or providing interventions and treatments to meet individual's needs
3. Plan and prioritise own visits to delegated patients, and ensure these are scheduled on SystmOne.
4. Ensure patient records are completed for each intervention, and that SystmOne inputting is completed.
5. Make basic observations on patients' response to prescribed treatment/care plans, identify risks, and report findings to a qualified practitioner. Make suggestions on care, protection and support.
6. Liaise with other health care professionals as required.
7. Overcome barriers to understanding, e.g. patients with hearing or cognitive impairment.
8. Communicate with patients/carers by exchanging factual information, giving reassurance, with tact and empathy.
9. Establish and maintain appropriate working relationships with colleagues, patients, carers and other health care professionals.
10. Demonstrate dexterity and coordination when undertaking treatment of patients where accuracy is important, and report results to registered practitioner.
11. Be responsible for ensuring equipment is used safely, following relevant training, and that it is maintained appropriately.

About us

One of the largest Trust's in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients' own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

Find out about living and working with us - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Felixstowe Community Hub

Seaton Road

Felixstowe

IP119BS

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Felixstowe Community Hub

Seaton Road

Felixstowe

IP119BS

Employer's website

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

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