Job overview

Do you like providing hands on care and support to people? Do you enjoy empowering them to be as independent as possible? Do you enjoy working independently? If so, then come join us in Intermediate Care.

Committed to outstanding levels of care, you will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team which consists of Rehab Support Workers, OTs, Nurses and Physiotherapists to support patients in their own homes. This will be either to avoid hospital admissions or support patients on discharge from hospital. You will receive lots of training to help you reach your full potential in the health and care setting, including your Senior Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship (L3).

You will need to be confident working on your own in patients’ homes, able to escalate issues and concerns for patient safety and be happy promoting patients’ independence by utilising rehab techniques as well as providing personal care to patients who are convalescing as well as to palliative patients. Excellent communication skills are essential.

You must be able to travel independently between patients’ homes across the area in a timely manner and will need business insurance. 

You will be rostered 37.5hrs over five shifts per week between 8am-9pm, seven days a week.

Main duties of the job

• Lone working with patients in their own homes
• Providing personal care support and rehab to patients
• Providing care to patients who are end of life and support to their family
• Supporting development of the service
• Work shifts between 8am-9pm, seven days a week
• Support within skill set to wider community services as required
• To work within scope of practice, only delivering treatments to patients in which you have been assessed as competent

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. 

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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