Job summary
- Main area
- Community
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (service covered 7 days 8:00-21:00 hrs)
- Job ref
- 362-A-24-6934593
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Regent House
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £24,071 - £25,674 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Support Worker
Band 3
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Our Values:
We Care
About each other
Our patients and their families
The communities we serve
The environment
We support them and deliver on their promises
We Respect
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return
We Listen to
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We act and learn from what we hear
Job overview
Permanent Post within Stockport Foundation Trust D2A / Intermediate Care at Home Team
Are you motivated, enthusiastic and reliable ? Do you wish to make a difference within Community Services? We are looking to recruit a Band 3 Senior Support worker who will provide nursing/therapy and social care to patients within their own homes, carrying out delegated clinical therapeutic and personal care interventions. You will be able to communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising their needs for alternative methods of communications. You will carry out care/other duties under indirect supervision of a registered professional.
The Discharge to Assess and Intermediate Care at Home Teams are an innovative and exciting service, aiming to facilitate timely discharges to the residents of Stockport. Working as part of a lively and dynamic multi professional community team, you will deliver holistic support and interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals in their usual residence. In joining our team you will be helping us to drive our ambition of an improving the health and wellbeing of people by working across organisational boundaries.
Main duties of the job
Discharge to Assess is a multi-professional team consisting of highly skilled and motivational staff who assess and plan episodes of care following discharge from hospital and into the community. These person centre, holistic assessments provide the basis of personal and therapeutic care needs and also facilitates the transfer of care to the most appropriate services; Health, Adult Social Care or partner agencies.
Intermediate Care at Home Team consists of rehabilitation specialists who work holistically and with an individualised focus to provide a short term rehabilitation service to those deemed medically stable and require no hospital care. This element of the service is free at the point of contact and incorporates the Stockport Trust ethos of minimizing hospital admissions and keeping our patients safe and rehabilitated in their own residence.
Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:
- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discount.
- Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
- Access to staff wellbeing services
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Discharge to Assess and Intermediate Care at Home teams continually develop and enhance the seamless transfer of care from hospital discharge to usual residence. The successful candidate will therefore embody Trust values, in supporting and facilitating safe discharge to individuals who are deemed medically optimised. The successful candidate will be passionate in providing community based interventions, demonstrating a high level of holistic care independently and as part of a team.
The multi professional team consists of highly skilled registered nursing staff, occupational therapists and physiotherapists. Complimenting our registered staff, we excel in providing a large team of Senior support workers and Community rehabilitation support workers. As a valued member of the team, you will be expected to liaise with colleagues across all sectors to facilitate discharge but also work independently to plan care and implement from a patient centred approach.
The team provides a seven day service, therefore this entails working some weekends, bank holidays and late shifts as core hours range from 8am - 9pm. The post is community based, delivering assessments and interventions in their usual domiciliary setting, therefore independent travel with a full UK driving license to deliver the role is essential. The team base is central to Stockport at Regent House, Heaton Lane, Stockport. SK4 1BS.
We promote a positive ethos on personal and professional development, providing access to training and supervisions. You will be offered induction, supernumerary working and full access to mandatory training. Furthermore, CPD is fully supported and very much encouraged. Regular PDRs and reflective supervisions provided alongside peer support sessions in the form of multi disciplinary and profession specific team meetings.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately. Mileage expenses paid monthly.
If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary.
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.00
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE Maths and English or equivalent.
- Literate, numerate and evidence of other educational qualifications.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of other educational achievements, Care Certificate, NVQ level 3 or equivalent in Health & Social Care.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of confidentiality.
- Understanding of how illness affects indivduals/family/carers.
- Understanding of current issues affecting the NHS and Social Care.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Effectively working in a team whilst valuing team contributions: relevant experience to the post.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in NHS/social care in the community.
- Vital signs monitoring.
- Understanding of palliative care.
- Basic Nursing Care.
- Safe patient Manual Handling
- Understanding of Health & Safety
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Good written, verbal and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently, without direct supervision, following verbal and written instruction.
- Good time management.
- IT Skills
- Good communicator with a will to learn and be adaptable.
- Is a team player and has personal integrity.
- Can use initiative.
Desirable criteria
- Good organisational skills.
Work Related
Essential criteria
- Holds a valid full UK/appropriate driving licence/access to car or drive if applicable
- Flexible to the needs of the service.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julie Pickford
- Job title
- Band 6 Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01618356694
- Additional information
Please contact D2A/ICaH office for more information and speak to the Team Lead of the day.
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