Nursing Support Worker (Community)

Hywel Dda University Health Board; Llanelli; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

The Nursing Support Worker role within the Acute Response Team provides intensive home rehabilitation for patients transitioning from hospital. This full-time position focuses on empowering individuals towards independence through tailored care plans, with collaboration across a multidisciplinary team. A 'can do' attitude and effective communication skills are essential for success in this community-oriented role.

Qualifications

• Desirable community experience but full training provided.
• Able to communicate effectively with multidisciplinary teams.
• Flexible approach to service needs.

Responsibilities

• Deliver delegated care as part of a team to support patients.
• Assist with daily activities such as washing and dressing.
• Collaborate with health professionals for patient-centered care.

Skills

Motivation

Communication

Teamwork

Job description

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Job Overview

The Acute Response Team based within Intermediate Care are pleased to be offering this exciting post as part of our Home First approach across Carmarthenshire.

Job Overview

The Acute Response Team based within Intermediate Care are pleased to be offering this exciting post as part of our Home First approach across Carmarthenshire.

The Nursing Support Worker role has been developed within our Home First Team to provide short-term, intensive rehabilitation at home for patients to enable them to return home from hospital sooner, providing access to care 24 hours a day / 7 days a week.

The post will deliver delegated care across a range of disciplines as part of a team-based approach to delivering holistic, patient-centred care. The key aim of the role is to support people to achieve independence through the delivery of an individualised plan of care as determined by the team.

We are looking for an individual who is motivated to make a positive contribution to the lives of the people we support and have a “can do” approach to their work.

Community experience is desirable, but not essential as full induction and training will be provided.

The successful candidates will need to communicate effectively with other team members at all times across all of the integrated teams and demonstrate a flexible approach to the needs of the service across the 7 days.

Main duties of the job

The team offers:

Support and advice from the multidisciplinary team for patients and carers.

Identified goals to increase independence with functional activities following discharge home. This may include goals with washing, dressing, functional mobility, meals, or any goals identified by the MDT.

Continuation and promotion of exercise programme if prescribed by a physiotherapist.

Support to carers on initial discharge by supporting the patient with functional tasks.

As one of our Nursing Support Workers, your duties will include working side-by-side with OTs, Physiotherapists, Nurses, GPs, Dieticians and other health and social care professionals, undertaking delegated tasks and providing planned care and support to people that will help them to remain in their own homes.

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

Interviews to be held on 01/07/2025.

Working for our organisation

Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 11,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:

Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest;

Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire;

48 general practices (four of which are managed practices), 47 dental practices (including three orthodontic), 99 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres;

Numerous locations providing mental health and learning disabilities services;

Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.

Hywel Dda University Health Board operates a bilingual policy. All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR APPLICANTS: Applications for our roles are carefully reviewed and shortlisted based on specific criteria, which varies from job to job. Using a generic application to apply for multiple roles or relying on automated AI application services, such as Lazy Apply or AI Apply, may not provide the necessary information, leading to your application being overlooked. To ensure your application is given full consideration, we recommend submitting a tailored application that directly addresses the criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the advert.

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To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa , unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK . If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.

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