Generic Worker

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Generic Worker to join the Haverhill Integrated Neighbourhood Team. The role involves delivering nursing and therapeutic support in patients' homes and care homes, aligning with patients' care plans and developing competency through in-service training.

You will work with a multidisciplinary team to promote independence, prevent unnecessary admissions, and ensure a seamless service across community and hospital settings.

Qualifications

• Experience in home-based care and multi-disciplinary teamwork.
• Ability to travel to patients' homes and care settings.
• Flexibility to meet patient/service needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard of care to patients while promoting independence and privacy.
• Undertake delegated healthcare for patients.
• Work with the integrated team to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital.
• Collaborate with health care professionals and statutory/non-statutory agencies for seamless service.

Skills

Communication

Observation skills

Flexibility

Teamwork

Driving license

Education

QCF care certificate or equivalent knowledge and experience or working towards an Apprenticeship

NVQ 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an passionate and experienced Generic Worker to join the Haverhill Integrated Neighbourhood Team at West Suffolk Foundation Trust. This post will be a generic post working with the nursing team so we are looking for a candidate who has experience at a Band 3, however this a supportive learning environment and we will help you to develop with competencies by in service training.

This job will provide care to people in their own homes which also includes care homes to prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital. We are looking for a colleague who is reliable, flexible, and wishes to develop their assessment, care planning skills whilst being part of a dynamic, progressive multi-disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

To provide high standard of care to the patient whilst promoting independence and respecting their privacy and that of their families.

To undertake delegated healthcare for patients.

To work alongside the integrated team to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital

To work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.

About us

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?

Job responsibilities

To use skills from the professional areas of Nursing, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, you will be providing nursing and therapy support to patients in the community.

You will be visiting patients in their own homes and implementing the patients individualised care plan designed by the nurses and therapists. Some of your duties may include carrying out home exercise programmes, phlebotomy, wound care, administering insulin to stable diabetic patients and monitoring basic physical observations for good health.

As well as the essential person specifications as on the job description, you will need to have good communication skills, initiative, and be flexible.

Experience of working in the health and social care field will be needed including skills and understanding of community-based work. an advantage. You will have the chance to be fully involved in working with the Multidisciplinary Team and integrating with Social Care and hospital-based staff, as part of our Hospital at Home service. You will need to be committed to ongoing learning and development within the WSFT Community Service.

Person Specification

Education and qualifications

• QCF care certificate or equivalent knowledge and experience or working towards an Apprenticeship
• Experience of working with the general public
• NVQ 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent
• Experience of working within a care setting

Skills and abilities

• Able to contribute to team goals.
• Work flexibly to accommodate patient/service needs.
• Manoeuvre patients using handling aids
• Good observational skills
• Work flexibly to accommodate patient/service needs.
• Good interpersonal skills
• Able to communicate effectively, in writing and verbally
• Frequent Travel Essential - You will need to travel, so you must either hold a full, current driving li-cence and have access to personal transport or meet the mobility requirements of the role through other reasonable and suitable means.

Experience & Knowledge

• Experience of working with the general public
• Ability to work with staff from a diverse range of backgrounds
• Ability to work alone or in small team
• Experience of working within a care setting

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.

£25,760 to £27,476 a yearper annum, pro rata