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Are you ready to start a new career pathway working within a joint enterprise of Health and Social Care?

You could become part of this combined Service bringing the unique benefits of a wrap round recovery service from hospital discharge. The principle of the service ensuring that recovery involves working towards the person being as independent as possible through enablement.

These are newly developed posts working across Health and Social Care, supporting recovery and delivering enablement in all areas of daily life including personal care and supporting nutrition, whilst also monitoring the patient’s condition. Contributing to an overall plan of care, which includes the support of the multi-disciplinary teams from Health and Social Care

This role requires the post holder to travel to sites across a wide geographical area.  In your application please outline how you intend to meet these travel requirements

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'Home First' An approach whereby supporting people to be discharged home is the default discharge pathway, with alternative pathways for people who cannot go straight home. This principle is a key part of the discharge to assess model.  The Home First Team service in Thanet, East Kent is a Kent Community Health Foundation Trust (KCHFT) and Kent County Council (KCC) adult social care partnership. The team provides short-term, personal care and rehabilitation to support patients to return home following a hospital admission and facilitate early supported discharge from hospital through access to health and care needs assessment at home.

We are looking for someone who:

• Believes in providing personalised support
• Can work independently and flexibly
• Respect privacy and dignity
• Looking to develop their skills
• Develop operational strengths
• Works to targets
• Good IT skills
• Ability to understand the business need and who want to expand their knowledge in both a Health and Social Care setting. 

Knowledge of working within the Health or Social Care sector is required, with strong assessment skills to support and steer people through their recovery and then move on to be as independent as possible.

The operational hours of the service are 08:00 – 20:00 seven days a week (working on a shift basis).

Additional Working Pattern: seven day working

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Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values Compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

 

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

See where you can go with KCHFT career pathways