Community Support Worker - South Warwickshire

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Warwick; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Band 3 Clinical Support Worker for the Leg Ulcer Team North, based at Royal Leamington Spa Rehabilitation, covering clinics across South Warwickshire and home visits.

The post requires a competent, well organised individual with an interest in wound care; you will support patients, deliver planned care, and provide compassionate personal care under supervision in a multidisciplinary team. Travel to community sites is essential.

Qualifications

• Interest in wound care and ability to work in a community setting.
• Able to deliver high-quality, compassionate personal care.
• Willingness to travel across South Warwickshire for home visits.

Responsibilities

• Assist in delivering planned care for patients with leg ulcers.
• Provide personal care under supervision of registered staff.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to support safe patient care.

Skills

Wound care

Interpersonal skills

Organised

Job description

Leg Ulcer Team North is pleased to offer the exciting opportunity of a Band 3 Clinical Support Worker. The Team is based at Royal Leamington Spa Rehabilitation and covers both Clinics across South Warwickshire and home visits across. The service currently runs Mon - Fri 8:30 - 16:30hrs.

We are looking to recruit a competent and well organised individual, with a particular interest in wound care. The role requires management of patients affected by Leg ulcers, and the post holder will assist and help deliver a plan of care to meet the individual's needs with emphasis being placed on self-care., 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.

The successful candidate will be motivated, enthusiastic and be able to demonstrate good interpersonal skills. The post is a community post and the ability to meet the travel requirements of the role is essential

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. This can be accessed via the link below:

https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2