Job summary
Therapy Support Worker / Community Support Worker The Orbital, Swindon, SN25 4AN
We are excited to be recruiting Therapy Support Workers / Community Support Workers to join our team at The Orbital in Swindon. We welcome applications for both full-time and part-time roles, offering flexibility to suit your lifestyle.
Whilst the current requirement focuses on roles providing rehabilitation alongside Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy colleagues, in this varied and rewarding position you will have the opportunity to support nursing areas and therapy services as our integrated neighbourhood teams develop.
You will be working closely with our multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care. Comprehensive and appropriate training will be provided to ensure you feel confident and supported in your role.
HCRG is advancing a major transformation to embed the Integrated Neighbourhood Health vision set out in the NHS Long Term Plan. By fostering stronger collaboration across services and adopting innovative ways of working, we aim to create healthier, more resilient communities and ensure that health and care resources are used where they have the greatest impact.
If you are caring, motivated, and keen to develop your skills in a supportive healthcare environment, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Main Responsibilities:
- Deliver treatment/care within a community setting as specified in a written care plan, under the guidance of a registered practitioner.
- To support and enable patients to reach their optimum level of independence, rehabilitation, and self-management in daily living tasks.
- To work with patients individually and in groups using specific rehabilitation techniques and skills.
- To communicate with individuals about routine and daily activities, this may include overcoming difficulties (e.g. hearing/language).
- To keep the patient at the centre of their care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
- To work within a multi-professional team and to feedback service user progress, liaising with colleagues, families, carers and other agencies.
Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.
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 doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're 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
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Health Care Support Worker / Therapy Support Worker you'll be part of our valued team based at The Orbital, Swindon, SN25 4AN.You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- A Band 3 salary with access to our group pension
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ring fenced innovation funding each year
Essential:
- Good general education.
- Care Certificate or willingness to achieve.
- Experience within NHS or care sector.
- Experience in providing care / delivering rehab or exercise.
- Experience of working under supervision.
- Experience of supporting other workers.
- Ability to work as a team member.
- Delivering patient focused care.
- Ability to recognise own limitations.
- Typing/data inputting skills.
- Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids.
- Experience in providing care / delivering rehab or exercise.
- Driven to achieve.
- Self-motivated.
- Good time management skills.
- Current full driving license and use of a car during working hours.
Desirable:
- Experience of community working.
- Experience of work in an acute or urgent health care setting.
- Experience of working in rehabilitation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Health Care Support Worker / Therapy Support Worker you'll be part of our valued team based at The Orbital, Swindon, SN25 4AN.You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- A Band 3 salary with access to our group pension
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ring fenced innovation funding each year
Essential:
- Good general education.
- Care Certificate or willingness to achieve.
- Experience within NHS or care sector.
- Experience in providing care / delivering rehab or exercise.
- Experience of working under supervision.
- Experience of supporting other workers.
- Ability to work as a team member.
- Delivering patient focused care.
- Ability to recognise own limitations.
- Typing/data inputting skills.
- Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids.
- Experience in providing care / delivering rehab or exercise.
- Driven to achieve.
- Self-motivated.
- Good time management skills.
- Current full driving license and use of a car during working hours.
Desirable:
- Experience of community working.
- Experience of work in an acute or urgent health care setting.
- Experience of working in rehabilitation.
Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
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Desirable
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Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
Desirable
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
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.
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