Healthcare Support Worker - Adult Community Services

Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust; Catford; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking Healthcare Support Workers to join their Adult Community Nursing Service in Catford, UK. The role involves delivering services to patients in their homes, offering autonomy and a real impact on patient care. Candidates should be compassionate, motivated, and possess strong communication skills. Comprehensive support and career progression opportunities are provided.

Benefits

Comprehensive induction programme

Access to further training and education

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Compassionate, highly motivated, and enthusiastic.

Responsibilities

• Deliver services to patients in their own homes.
• Work with autonomy and professional accountability.

Job description

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust has an exciting opportunity for Healthcare Support Workers to join the Adult Community Nursing Service delivering services to patients in their own homes in one of our four local neighbourhoods. With the renewed emphasis on community-based care, this is a great time to join our team and continue your journey. In return, we offer a comprehensive induction programme, access to further training and education and actively encourage and enhance career progression.

Key Initiatives

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Role Overview

As no two days are the same in the community, you will be able to work with a high degree of autonomy and professional accountability where the work you do makes a real difference to your patients and those important to them, in line with our trust values.

Qualifications

We are looking for staff who are compassionate, highly motivated, enthusiastic, have excellent communication and team working abilities within our diverse multicultural community.

Benefits & Culture

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations.