Rapid Response Support Worker
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Job summary
Working within ourCommunity Rapid Response Team, you will support and assist team members toprovide rehabilitationto people in their own homesfor a widerange ofconditions, including reduced mobility and reduced ability to manage activities of daily living.Our work is crucial to the community as we aim to prevent unnecessary hospital submission and support hospital discharges. In this role, you will care for patients by delivering our high service standards, sharing bestpractice, and actively helping to develop and improve the way we work.
As part of our Community Rapid Response Team we empower our staff to work as autonomous staff members, and as part of a multidisciplinary team, with the provision of ipads/ tablets to promote remote working and enable staff to be out in the community supporting patients within their own home.
The Rapid Response Team operate 7 days a week, including bank holidays, 8am until 8pm. There is the option to work short shifts or long days within the service.
Main duties of the job
- To actively work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to provide a high quality of nursing, occupational therapy and physiotherapy intervention to the patient.
- To actively participate in patients individual rehabilitation/programmes of care under the guidance of an appropriate professional.
- To also work with the MDT including GPs and colleagues in the local acute hospital in order to provide a rapid response short term intervention to persons who have been referred on the Discharge to Assess (D2A) and 2 hour rapid response pathway.
- To take responsibility for completion of basic assessment processes under the supervision of the relevant members of the MDT to undertake Trusted Assessor Training when it becomes available.
- To provide and promote a high standard of rehabilitation of patients.
- To work autonomously as well as part of a team
- To be able to use and take initiative to seek additional work to assist the team as a whole (e.g. team administration tasks, being the first point of contact for patients, families and other health professionals, assisting in the maintenance of service equipment).
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Details
Date posted
02 October 2024
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£23,100 to £23,100 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
HCRGCG/TP/1580/11787
Job locations
HCRG Care Group
Sheerness
Kent
ME12 3LT
Employer details
Employer name
HCRG Care Group
Address
HCRG Care Group
Sheerness
Kent
ME12 3LT
Employer's website
https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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