Healthcare Support Worker for UCR & Virtual Ward - Whitchurch

Shropshire Community Health Nhs Trust; Basingstoke and Deane; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health organization seeks to enhance patient care by providing quality healthcare interventions in the community. This role involves delivering clinical support and re-ablement services to promote functional independence. Candidates should be prepared to build relationships with healthcare teams and patients alike. Apply early due to high application volumes.

Qualifications

• Support the delivery of quality healthcare interventions.
• Facilitate re-ablement support to maximize patients' functional independence.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality, clinically effective patient care.
• Build strong relationships with healthcare professionals and patients.

Job description

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.

Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) will need to meet the salary threshold of £41,700. For a limited number of clinical posts (listed here), applications to the Health and Care Visa route will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the minimum salary threshold of £25,000 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.

Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here.

Role Overview

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

Responsibilities

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 patients 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

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

About Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust

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.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

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.