Community Support Worker Hospital@Home - Drop Ins

Wye Valley Nhs Trust; Hereford; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Wye Valley NHS Trust in Herefordshire is expanding the Hereford Hospital at Home team. We are seeking Band 3 Healthcare Support Workers to join a 24/7 service delivering safe, proactive care at patients' homes, and to support qualified nursing staff with day and night shifts.

You will undertake delegated nursing tasks, record patient information, take routine observations, assist with cannulation and samples, dressings, and support medication administration, contributing to high-quality,

Qualifications

• Experience in patient care in community or hospital settings.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Patient care support

Vital signs observation

Cannulation assistance

Job description

Our Hospital at Home service, part of the Unplanned Care Directorate, is expanding in line with the national vision to move appropriate care from acute settings into the community. We provide personalised, proactive care closer to home, enabling patients to receive appropriate acute-level care in their own homes. Hospital at Home is a 24/7 service providing safe, responsive and high-quality care. We are looking for motivated, compassionate individuals to join our Herefordshire Hospital at Home Team as Band 3 Healthcare Support Workers. Staff will work shift patterns, including day and night shifts, weekends and bank holidays, in line with service needs.,

• 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 record patient information.
• To provide planned patient care.
• Are you passionate about delivering high-quality, person-centred care to patients in the comfort of their own homes?
• 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.