Community Support Worker Hospital@Home

Wye Valley NHS Trust; Hereford; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Herefordshire is seeking a Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker to assist in delivering high-quality care at home. This role requires completing a Care Certificate and involves assisting nursing staff with various patient care tasks, including taking observations and administering basic care. Ideal candidates should demonstrate effective communication and core nursing skills. Competitive salary ranges from £24,625 to £25,674 pro rata.

Qualifications

• Completion of Care Certificate or equivalent experience to vocational qualification level 3.
• Can demonstrate a range of core skills to competently undertake patient care.
• Effective written and verbal communication, literacy, numeracy and IT skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist qualified Nursing staff in a range of patient care duties.
• Undertake delegated nursing tasks including taking samples and routine observations.
• Provide planned patient care.

Skills

Communication skills

Knowledge of nursing tasks (cannulation, wound assessment)

Ability to follow policies and practices

IT skills

Education

Completion of Care Certificate or equivalent

Job description

Join Our Hospital at Home Team - Be Part of the Future of Community Healthcare

Are you passionate about delivering high-quality care to people in the comfort of their own homes?

Do you want to be part of an innovative service transforming how acute care is delivered in Herefordshire?

Our Hospital at Home service is expanding in line with the national vision for moving care from Acute to Community, supporting the NHS Long Term Plan's ambition to provide more personalised, proactive care closer to home. This is your opportunity to be at the forefront of an exciting, modern model of healthcare.

We are looking for motivated, compassionate and adaptable individuals to join our Herefordshire Hospital at Home Team as Band 3 Healthcare Support Workers.

This role requires:

• Access to a car for work
• Attendance at a face‑to‑face interview

Main duties of the job

• Assist qualified Nursing staff in a range of patient care duties.
• To undertake a range of delegated nursing tasks, including cannulation and taking blood or urine samples, carrying out basic wound assessments and applying simple dressings, taking routine observations and supporting clients with medication.
• To provide planned patient care.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work‑life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Job responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

• Completion of Care Certificate or equivalent experience to vocational qualification level 3.

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• Understands and complies with CSW mandatory induction standards and code of conduct.
• Awareness, understanding and compliance of policies and practices e.g. Escort Policy, Prevention and control of infection and Health and Safety. The post holder is therefore able to work within the scope of their practice under direct and indirect supervision by the registered nurse (training will be provided).
• Can demonstrate knowledge of equipment used within the department to support the registered nurse and ensure that they are compatible and in good working order. Will elevate any concerns to a registered nurse.
• Completion and maintenance of statutory & mandatory learning activities.

Experience

• Can demonstrate a range of core skills to competently undertake patient care and other tasks and activities.
• Effective written and verbal communication, literacy, numeracy and IT skills.

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.

Community Matron for Hospital@Home Nursing

£24,625 to £25,674 a yearpro rata, per annum