Community Support Worker - Community Response Team (CRT)

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Stratford-upon-Avon; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 3 Community Support Worker for the Community Response Team. The role focuses on high quality care, supporting patients to stay independent at home and aiding safe discharge from hospital.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team across Warwickshire, with a requirement to hold a valid driving licence and access to your own car. Shifts include 08:30–21:30, seven days a week.

Qualifications

• Valid driving licence and access to own car.

Responsibilities

• Undertake high quality, caring personal care as part of the multidisciplinary team.
• Support patients to remain independent at home and facilitate safe discharges.

Skills

Driving licence

Job description

Clinical Support Worker –Community Response Team (CRT)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Band 3 Community Support Worker to come and join us in our Community Response Team.

Are you interested in working within South Warwickshire University Foundation Trust Community Services? Are you a carer, a support worker, or someone who has always been interested in working for the NHS?

Our Community Response Team covers South Warwickshire, has bases at Stratford upon Avon and Leamington Spa working across the county supporting patients that have identified health and social needs as a result of a change in their health condition. The service is committed to provide high quality care to provide an immediate response, aiming to prevent avoidable hospital admissions by providing support to patients to remain independent within their own home and facilitating safe discharges home from hospital. The team works together to support patients in the community and work closely with social services, GPs, community nursing teams, patients, relatives and carers.

To be successful in this role you must hold a valid driving licence and have access to your own car.

The Community Response Team operates across the hours of 08:30-21:30, 7 days a week, including weekends and bank holidays. Shifts are allocated pro rata, we offer a mix of early, late and long days.

The Band 3 Clinical Support Worker will undertake high quality, caring and compassionate personal care and associated duties under the direction but not direct supervision of the registered staff and working as part of the multidisciplinary team.

As a Band 3 Clinical Support Worker (CSW) you make a valuable and important contribution to the delivery of high quality healthcare, supporting the registered professional in the delivery of safe, effective, compassionate patient care. This job description is to be read in conjunction with the person specification for this particular job.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As Part Of Our Commitment To Equality, Diversity And Inclusion We Encourage All Applicants To Complete a Short Survey.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Katherine Tarrant Job title: Professional Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07407 875628