Community Healthcare Support Worker

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust • Part-time • Shrewsbury, England, United Kingdom • £23.62k / year • 1m ago

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Healthcare Support Worker to join the Shropshire & Telford multidisciplinary teams in the provision of Immediate and Planned Care to patients in the community. The multidisciplinary teams provide nursing and therapy services offering an alternative to hospital admission, supporting timely discharge, and enabling people to realise their potential and functional independence.

This is a fantastic development opportunity to develop your clinical skills & knowledge and provide you with a pathway to develop to Band 3 & beyond.

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

Promotes a ‘can do’ attitude and determination to develop and sustain a dynamic and responsive clinical and administrative support service within a Community Hospital / Community Team setting which delivers best practice.

Promote and enhance the health and wellbeing of patients.

Promote and improve the patient experience / journey.

Empower patients and promote patient shared/self-care where appropriate.

To observe the general behaviour, ability and response of patients/clients and to record the information and report to qualified staff as and when required. To deal appropriately with interruptions, unpredictable events and behaviours.

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.

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.