Healthcare Support Worker for UCR & Virtual Ward - Shrewsbury

Shropshire Community Health Nhs Trust; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Urgent Community Response (UCR) & Virtual Wards Service. The post will form part of a seven day service based within the Shrewsbury locality team.

The service provides patients who are experiencing an acute change in their health, a safe and effective alternative to hospital admission, supported by a mixture of face to face visits and digital technology.

The service offers an appropriate alternative to admission pathway, which aims to deliver a recommended and agreed medical, nursing, and therapeutic treatment plan. The focus is supporting the safe management and provision of care for people in their own home. The role and service offer integration and partnership working across the system to ensure a seamless service.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you apply early to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible to support the delivery of quality healthcare interventions to patients living in their own environment in the community, in order to meet their health and wellbeing needs, and to facilitate re-ablement support in order to maximise a patient’s functional independence at point of referral.

You will support individuals and clinical teams to deliver high quality, clinically effective patient care through assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation. Along the way, you’ll build strong relationships with a wide range of healthcare professionals and patients.

Operating hours of the service will be 08.00-00.00, 7 days a week.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community- based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life – and a good work life/home life balance.