Healthcare Support Worker - Medicine Management Team, Domiciliary care

NHS; Swansea; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Swansea Bay Medicine Management Team as a Healthcare Support Worker, where you'll provide essential medication support to individuals in their homes. This role requires excellent communication skills and a commitment to patient-centered care. With opportunities for professional development in a leading healthcare organization, you will play a vital role in enhancing the lives of those in the community.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Health Care assistant.
• Experience in a community setting.
• Understanding of the Swansea MAR scheme.

Responsibilities

• Provide medication support under the direction of Pharmacy Technicians.
• Assist with blood sample collection and delivery for testing.
• Support patients and families to promote independence.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Patient Care

Education

QCF level 3 in Health

Phlebotomy training

Medicine Management Competency assessor

Job description

Healthcare Support Worker - Medicine Management Team, Domiciliary care

Swansea Bay Health Board is seeking to recruit a Health Care assistant to join the Swansea Medicine Management Team in Domiciliary Care. This is an excellent opportunity for a HCSW with experience in the community setting and a good understanding of medicine management to help support individuals in their homes.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work under the direction of Pharmacy Technicians to provide medication support to individuals in their own homes across Swansea Bay Health Board.

The role requires individuals to have excellent communication skills to ensure close working relationships with everyone involved in the Swansea MAR scheme.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

We believe staff are our best asset and wewant you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board.

As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.

You might be a nurse ordoctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - wehave a job for you.

There are also apprenticeships, work placementsand volunteering roles available.

We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex; religion or belief; race; age; sexual orientation; gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled.

Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show thatour commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.

If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery,with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.

Job responsibilities

• To work under the direction and supervision of the Medicine Management Team (domiciliary care) in the provision of care to individuals in the community setting.
• To support the team with the provision of undertaking delegated tasks associated with Swanseas MAR scheme
• General administrative duties associated with the Swansea MAR scheme.
• Assisting the team in undertaking provision of warfarin MAR charts to service users in the domiciliary care setting.
• Taking blood samples from the service users and delivering timely to the laboratory for INR testing.
• Communicate effectively with all patients, carers, families and members of the district nursing team and other significant agencies
• Assist and advise patients, carers and families to promote independence and self care.
• Meet identified patient needs and to organise own workload priorities under the direction of the Team Leader/Caseload Holder

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• QCF level 3 in Health
• Phlebotomy training
• Medicine Management Competency assessor

Experience

• Significant experience of working as a Health Care assistant
• Experience of working in a community setting
• Understanding of the Swansea MAR scheme

Skills

• Ability to work effectively as a team player under appropriate supervision
• Ability to deal with non-routine and unpredictable nature of the workload
• Ability to assess the level of support an individual requires with medication

Knowledge

• Awareness of the importance of patient centred care and promoting independence
• Understanding of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional
• Understanding of medicine management issues
• Understanding of caring for individuals with particular conditions

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.