Job overview
It’s an exciting time for our Urgent Community Response (UCR) Service as we expand into the High Weald, Lewes, and the Havens (HWLH) area. We are recruiting to our new teams who will work with patients in their homes across the HWLH communities.
This is an amazing opportunity to become a member of the team as a Health and Therapy Assistant working together to help patients stay in their homes, making sure they avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting them through the first few critical days after they leave hospital. The focus of this role is providing personal, health and therapy care for patients across the area with acute and diverse needs.
We are a multidisciplinary team working flexibly to provide a seven-day service, 365 days a year, between 8am and 8pm. We deliver:
The team works closely with other services within Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust, as well as our acute and community partners, GPs, South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb), adult social care and voluntary and third sector organisations.
Main duties of the job
In this role, your day will be varied and interesting, supporting patients towards achieving more independence in their activities of daily living. You will be supported by nursing, physiotherapy, and occupational therapy colleagues to review the needs of patients and input into onward referrals. Due to the development of shared competencies across the registered staff groups, Health and Therapy Assistants now have a greater scope of independent working and access to skill development across each of these disciplines.
Your role will include assisting in the ongoing assessment and provision of care, reablement and reporting all changes in patient status to your registered colleagues. You will undertake simple clinical and therapeutic procedures such as taking physical observations, venepuncture, administering medications, simple wound care, rehabilitation programmes and equipment provision. You will be expected to record the outcome of contacts with patient, relatives, and MDT members in either verbal or written format and you will have a key role in empowering patients to regain their health and independence in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
You will need to able to drive with a full UK licence due to the geographic area covered by the team.
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Further information is available in the attached job description and person specification.
If you would like to discuss this role or find out more, you can contact our Operational Team Leads, Jacqui Hilder and Jessica Poulton, by emailing -ucr- .
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This post may close earlier than the published closing date if sufficient applications are received.
Correspondence relating to this vacancy will be conducted electronically. If you have not heard from us within two weeks please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please ensure that you check your emails, including your junk folder, on a regular basis. References will be requested electronically as well; please ensure you provide correct contact details for referees.
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