Job summary
Community Health Care Assistant
Are you looking for a role where you can work caring for other people in their own home?
We are redesigning our community services model and implementing a new Intermediate Care Team and therefore exciting opportunity has arisen to employ community health care assistants to deliver Urgent Community Response services (provides care 8am to 9pm, 7 days a week) across Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil and will play a crucial role in providing essential support and care to individuals, with a focus on promoting independence, dignity, and well-being. This is an opportunity for someone who wishes to continue to progress their career in nursing.
This role will support patients to recover or rehabilitate after a period of illness or crisis by implementing planned Intermediate Care for individuals in their own home, maintaining a high standard of evidence-based practice to meet identified needs whilst being supported by a multi-disciplinary team of Doctors, Nurses, Therapists and Allied Health professionals.
This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable , at level 3 Speaking/Listening.
Main duties of the job
Provide support for avoiding admission to hospital when clinically safe to do so, through appropriate community based care and support, which includes providing personal care to patients, performing vital observations, and venepuncture and maintaining accurate records.
Follow intervention plans formulated by a Health Care Professional within agreed parameters in order to allow patients to maximise their functional independence.
Utilise knowledge and understanding of common physical, mental and behavioural health conditions to recognise deterioration in service users.
About us
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
- Work alone within scope of role and have delegated caseload of patients that have been previously seen/triaged and assessed by a registered member of staff.
- Work unsupervised, following a care plan that has been implemented by a Health Care Professional.
- Undertake enabling care as directed by a registered practitioner; this will include assistance with toileting, washing, dressing and continence care, mobility, transfers and use of potential walking aids.
- Be vigilant for cues indicating safeguarding issues.
- Escalate safeguarding concerns and reports to the multi-disciplinary team in a robust, timely manner, complying with legal requirements.
- Respond by promptly escalating concerns to a registered practitioner.
- Recognise an emergency, summon assistance and act as a member of the multi-disciplinary team within parameters of competence and role.
- Use delegated therapeutic handling techniques as required by the individual and their environment in order to safely, efficiently and effectively treat the patients according to their agreed treatment plans, goals and outcomes.
- Safely encourage a prescribed recovery programme as per competency framework.
- Feedback to registered staff member signs of progress, regression etc.
- Ensure the safety of patients when delivering enabling care.
- Follow UHB policies and procedures.
- Keep up to date with all mandatory training.
- Effective communication for all patients with an empathetic and understanding approach, where barriers may have to be overcome.
- Exchange information with service user and families using active listening, compassion, empathy, and coproduction techniques with the service user.
- Communicate and liaise effectively with peers, colleagues and other staff members of all levels, and disciplines, providing accurate accounts of patients abilities and progress. Requiring discretion, confidentiality, and sensitivity.
- Provide written records of activities undertaken as part of delegated care plan and patient progress.
- Recognise and understand how to effectively deal with situations that may include stressful patients or relatives.
- Provide feedback on service-user progress and condition, recognise the impact of support and interventions, and suggest ideas for improvement when developing, reviewing and evaluating ongoing care needs based on objective evidence and experience.
- Communicate through a variety of methods, including the use of interpersonal, written, verbal and non-verbal skills.
- Ability to use and maintain written and electronic records following UHB policies.
- Have knowledge and understanding of chronic conditions and frailty related issues.
- Have an understanding of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Use prescribed manual handling equipment, implementing single handed care safely within the patients home.
- Basic IT skills.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
- Work alone within scope of role and have delegated caseload of patients that have been previously seen/triaged and assessed by a registered member of staff.
- Work unsupervised, following a care plan that has been implemented by a Health Care Professional.
- Undertake enabling care as directed by a registered practitioner; this will include assistance with toileting, washing, dressing and continence care, mobility, transfers and use of potential walking aids.
- Be vigilant for cues indicating safeguarding issues.
- Escalate safeguarding concerns and reports to the multi-disciplinary team in a robust, timely manner, complying with legal requirements.
- Respond by promptly escalating concerns to a registered practitioner.
- Recognise an emergency, summon assistance and act as a member of the multi-disciplinary team within parameters of competence and role.
- Use delegated therapeutic handling techniques as required by the individual and their environment in order to safely, efficiently and effectively treat the patients according to their agreed treatment plans, goals and outcomes.
- Safely encourage a prescribed recovery programme as per competency framework.
- Feedback to registered staff member signs of progress, regression etc.
- Ensure the safety of patients when delivering enabling care.
- Follow UHB policies and procedures.
- Keep up to date with all mandatory training.
- Effective communication for all patients with an empathetic and understanding approach, where barriers may have to be overcome.
- Exchange information with service user and families using active listening, compassion, empathy, and coproduction techniques with the service user.
- Communicate and liaise effectively with peers, colleagues and other staff members of all levels, and disciplines, providing accurate accounts of patients abilities and progress. Requiring discretion, confidentiality, and sensitivity.
- Provide written records of activities undertaken as part of delegated care plan and patient progress.
- Recognise and understand how to effectively deal with situations that may include stressful patients or relatives.
- Provide feedback on service-user progress and condition, recognise the impact of support and interventions, and suggest ideas for improvement when developing, reviewing and evaluating ongoing care needs based on objective evidence and experience.
- Communicate through a variety of methods, including the use of interpersonal, written, verbal and non-verbal skills.
- Ability to use and maintain written and electronic records following UHB policies.
- Have knowledge and understanding of chronic conditions and frailty related issues.
- Have an understanding of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Use prescribed manual handling equipment, implementing single handed care safely within the patients home.
- Basic IT skills.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Level 3 NVQ in a health or social care or relevant care experience
Desirable
- Understanding of chronic conditions and frailty
- Local knowledge of statutory and voluntary services
Experience
Essential
- Patient related experience in a health, third sector or social care services.
- Experience in providing care and/or undertaking clinical observations
Desirable
- Experience in a range of clinical skills.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Excellent communication skills with patients, patients' family and members of the multi-professional team
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to work independently within limits of skill and knowledge and aware of when to seek advice
- Ability to reflect on practice and seek areas of improvement
Desirable
- Ability to diffuse difficult/threatening situations
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards achieving this level
Other Role Requirements
Essential
- Post is community based so it is essential that post holder can travel flexibly in a defined area in a timely manner
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Level 3 NVQ in a health or social care or relevant care experience
Desirable
- Understanding of chronic conditions and frailty
- Local knowledge of statutory and voluntary services
Experience
Essential
- Patient related experience in a health, third sector or social care services.
- Experience in providing care and/or undertaking clinical observations
Desirable
- Experience in a range of clinical skills.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Excellent communication skills with patients, patients' family and members of the multi-professional team
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to work independently within limits of skill and knowledge and aware of when to seek advice
- Ability to reflect on practice and seek areas of improvement
Desirable
- Ability to diffuse difficult/threatening situations
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards achieving this level
Other Role Requirements
Essential
- Post is community based so it is essential that post holder can travel flexibly in a defined area in a timely manner
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Address
Trem y Mor and Dewi Saint Health Park (DSHP)
DSHP Albert Road
Pontypridd
CF37 1LB
Employer's website
https://joinctm.wales/ (Opens in a new tab)
