Job summary
UCR Health Care Assistant - 7 day service (shift patterns apply 08:00 - 20:30, 20:00 - 08:30 and 10:00 - 22:30)
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Would you like to make a difference to people's lives, in a role that enables you to develop your skills? We are looking for kind compassionate staff to support people to continue to live in their own homes in Hambleton and Richmondshire locality.
This exciting new role has been developed to support the new Hospital at Home (H@H) and Urgent Community Response (UCR) multidisciplinary team working across Hambleton and Richmondshire.
This is an opportunity for those who are interested in working in the local community and being part of an exciting new model of working in the community localities of Hambleton and Richmondshire.
This is an opportunity for anyone interested in working alongside nursing and therapy to help bridge the gap between home and hospital. The UCR Team will work with patients that can be assessed in their own home to prevent hospital admission and to facilitate early discharge. You will provide both rehab and nursing care activities following a person-centred plan within the patients' own home.
The role will require some flexibility and this will require the post holder to work a mixture of day and night shifts across Hospital @ Home and UCR in response to service demands and therefore you would need to have access to a vehicle and be able to travel independently throughout the area.
Main duties of the job
To work as part of the Integrated Community Urgent Community Response (UCR) therapy/nursing team to deliver a 7 day, 24 hour same day UCR service based in the community, to support discharge to assess and admission avoidance. To work flexibly to meet the changing needs of the patients.
The Healthcare Support Worker is a member of the team who will support patients at home during a 72 hour period of crisis until a care package can be instigated.
The post holder will undertake a broad range of care activities, including personal care without direct supervision of a Registered Practitioner but will feed back findings.
Each person that you work with will have individual needs, but the kind of support you might give includes:
- Assistance with washing and dressing, getting in/out of bed on/off the toilet.
- Prompting with medication
- Base line observations
- Fitting of equipment
- Venepuncture
- Bladder Scanning
- Simple Dressings
Please note that this vacancy will close when we receive sufficient completed applications.
About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Numeracy and Literacy Level 2
- Care certificate
- Level 3 vocational qualification or Short courses and completion of competency workbook equivalent to Level 3 in a range of patient and clinical care duties and/or Equivalent knowledge and experience in a range of clinical care duties equivalent to Level 3; - Theoretical knowledge - Experience of a range of care and related procedures - clinical observations - knowledge of relevant legislation
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Analytical and judgement skills to make decisions based on patient / service user interactions and observations and metrics.
- Basic IT skills to use electronic patient records and other Trust systems.
- Understanding of the importance of robust, accurate, clear, timely documentation.
- Working knowledge of legislation underpinning care provision.
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
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Friarage Hospital
Bullamoor Road
Northallerton
DL6 1JG