Community Healthcare Assistant

Shropshire Community Health Nhs Trust; Market Drayton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health service provider is seeking a highly motivated individual to join their Community Nursing Team in Market Drayton. The role involves providing planned and admission avoidance care to patients in their own homes. Candidates should have a strong commitment to patient care and work alongside a trained nursing team. This full-time position requires flexibility to cover a 7-day rota system, ensuring timely discharge and support for those in need.

Qualifications

• Highly motivated individual required for community nursing team.
• Ability to provide planned and admission avoidance care.

Responsibilities

• Provide nursing care to patients in their homes or chosen residence.
• Support timely discharge and prevent hospital admissions.
• Work alongside trained nurses in a community setting.

Job description

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.

Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) will need to meet the salary threshold of £41,700. For a limited number of clinical posts (listed here), applications to the Health and Care Visa route will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the minimum salary threshold of £25,000 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.

Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here., Important information regarding visa sponsorship: the minimum salary requirement for a Certificate of Sponsorship (COS) is £25,000 per annum. In order to meet the eligibility criteria, you would need to qualify for the top pay point of band 3. You can only commence on the top pay point of band 3 if you are already at this pay point within an NHS organisation and can evidence this when requested by providing a payslip. If you do not meet this criteria we would not be able to offer a COS if you were offered the position. If you will not have the right to work in the UK without a COS, we will not be able to proceed with a job offer.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for highly motivated individual to join our Community Nursing Team within the North East, covering the areas of Market Drayton, Hodnet, Shawbury, Wem and Whitchurch, in Shropshire in the provision of Planned and Admission Avoidance care to patients in the community.

Care and compassion is at the heart of everything we do. We place the individual at the centre by listening to what they have to say, recognising their needs and responding appropriately. We want our patients to recognise that they are more than just their conditions and their treatments.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

You will be working along side out excellent trained nurses to provides nursing care to patient within their own homes or chosen place of residence offering an alternative to hospital admission, supporting timely discharge, and enabling people to realize their potential.

We are committed to clinical support, CPD & training.

This post is full time - 37.5 hours per week, covering 7 days 8am to 6pm service, on a Rota System.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.