Healthcare & Therapy Assistant - REACT

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust's REACT service is looking for Healthcare & Therapy Assistants to support patients at home, helping them regain independence and avoid hospital admissions. The role involves visiting patients across East Suffolk and working various shifts to cover weekdays, weekends and bank holidays.

You will operate as part of a multi-disciplinary team, with training provided across nursing, therapy, and social care.

Responsibilities

• Provide one-to-one support with patients in their home environment, assisting with personal care and daily activities using a reablement approach.
• Travel across East Suffolk to reach patients on the caseload; a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential; mileage reimbursed.
• Develop and maintain a flexible, proactive and positive approach to the role, while being innovative and open to change in working practices.
• Take responsibility and ownership of high-quality service delivery, and support ESNEFT's values.
• Manage an effective interface with colleagues from health, social care and voluntary care services to ensure integrated patient-centred care.
• Support clinicians by completing delegated tasks and gaining skills through training across Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Dietetics, Mental Health and Social Care.

Job description

REACT is based within the community and assesses and supports patients experiencing a short-term physical health crisis to remain in their own home, avoiding an emergency admission to hospital where possible. The integrated, multi-agency team covers a varied caseload, and you will join a team of Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Doctors, healthcare & therapy assistants, social workers and staff from Suffolk Family Carers, Citizens Advice and British Red Cross.

The REACT Service provides 24-hour support, but this role currently includes early shifts (07:00-15:00) and late shifts (14:30 - 22:30) which cover weekdays, weekend and bank holiday working. With a reablement approach our Healthcare & Therapy Assistants support people to regain their level of independence with activities of daily living where possible, or until an alternative care agency can be instigated. Activities of daily living include but are not limited to personal care, meals preparation, medication administration and following therapy care plan for reablement therapy.

• The role will involve providing one to one support with patients in their home environment supporting all aspects of personal care and daily activities, using a reablement approach.
• Travelling across East Suffolk to reach patients on the caseload - therefore a full UK drivers licence and access to a vehicle is essential for this role. Mileage will be reimbursed and where available a pool car can be accessed but not guaranteed.
• To develop and maintain a flexible, proactive and positive approach to the role, whilst being innovative and open to change in working practices.
• To take responsibility and ownership of high-quality service delivery, to foster a culture of integrity, be an ambassador for REACT raising the profile for the service and support ESNEFTs trust values.
• Manage an effective interface with colleagues from health, social care and voluntary care services to ensure an integrated approach to a patient centred care.
• Support clinicians by completing delegated tasks, to meet the individual needs of patients and service users. Gaining skills through training, to support areas of, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Dietetics, Mental Health, Medicines and Social Care. These skills may include but not be limited to basic observations, taking ECGs, venepuncture, assisting with medications, care skills, basic nursing needs and supporting with therapy interventions.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Olivia Whitmore Job title: Team Lead Email address: [e-mail]