Health Care Support Worker - Home First Response Service - B3

NHS National Services Scotland; Paisley; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Scotland is seeking candidates for a fixed-term position within the Home First Response service. The role involves providing hands-on care and support for patients with frailty while working within a multidisciplinary team. Candidates should have prior experience in a care environment and be working towards an SVQ level 3 or equivalent qualification. This position offers opportunities to develop healthcare competencies and contribute to community rehabilitation efforts.

Qualifications

• Experience working within a care environment.
• SVQ level 3 or similar qualification.
• Ability to provide hands-on care and support.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for patients identified with frailty.
• Work with an MDT to support discharges and prevent admissions.
• Engage with patients to help them live safely at home.

Skills

Experience within a care environment

Ability to work effectively within a community rehabilitation MDT team

Hands-on care and support skills

Education

SVQ level 3 or equivalent experience

Job description

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non‑clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.

Hours of work will be flexible to cover core hours, 7 days per week. Initially hours will be 9am-5pm.

This is a fixed‑term post of 1 year.

This post will be part of the Home First Response service and will be based within Renfrewshire HSCP. The Home First Response service provides a mult‑disciplinary team (MDT) approach to support patients identified with frailty within the Residential Aged Care Home (RAH) and Community and work with an MDT approach to support their discharge from hospital or prevent their admission.

The successful candidate will have experience within a care environment, have or be working towards SVQ level 3 or have equivalent experience and be able to work effectively within a community rehabilitation MDT team. The post holder will provide hands‑on care and support within a rehabilitation ethos. This post offers the opportunity to develop competencies across all health fields to be able to support nursing and allied health professional care plans, treatments and therapies as well as the opportunity to work closely with patients to enable them to live safely at home.

This post presents an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to be part of a new service and approach to care delivery. For the duration of this post, education and training will be aligned to the local induction and competency frameworks.

These posts will be peripatetic working across acute and community to support the development of the 7‑day service.

Informal contact: Alison Togher, Team Lead HFRS, 0781682814, [e-mail]

Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service and the Recruitment Process: Information for candidates

This post may close early to the volume of response. Please submit your application form as soon as possible.

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