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Community Healthcare Assistant at Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust (Visa Sponsorship)

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust is looking for a compassionate and dedicated Community Care Assistant to join their team and make a meaningful impact on the lives of others. Sponsorship is available for exceptional candidates who require it. 

About the Trust

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust is committed to providing exceptional care to individuals and communities. The trust operates: 

– Community hospitals and health services across Worcestershire. 

– Mental health and learning disability services in both Herefordshire and Worcestershire. 

With a team of over 4,500 dedicated professionals, the trust delivers comprehensive services for people of all ages, addressing both physical and mental health needs. Services are provided from more than 100 locations, ensuring accessible and high-quality care. 

Join a team where your compassion and skills will make a real difference. Apply today! 

Position: Community Healthcare Assistant

Salary: £24,071 to £25,674 per annum,

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

Location: Hereford, UK

About the Role

A very exciting opportunity has arisen within the Herefordshire Community Learning Disability Team.

The team are based in central Hereford and have brilliant working relationships with the Worcestershire CLD teams, GP surgeries, primary and secondary care services.

Want to be a member of the team? We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic and passionate when working and supporting people with a learning disability. If you are currently a support worker or health care assistant with plenty of previous experience of supporting individuals with a learning disability then you could be just the person that we are looking for to join our small, friendly, and dedicated team.

This is an exciting, challenging and very varied role with no two days ever being the same. You will be supported with supervision and guidance of the clinical team (which includes nursing, speech & language, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and psychology to support assessments and implement plans of care to meet the identified health needs of individuals.

There also are good public transport links to the main base but it is essential you can meet the travel requirements of the role.

Main Duties

  • Ensure written records are kept up to date on care notes/ Rio to facilitate evaluation and monitoring of all patients.
  • Obtain required information during assessment period and plan service users’ care through discussions with the supervising allocated clinician.
  • Implement health-related interventions, train service users and their carers in their implementation and contribute to monitoring and evaluating their effectiveness.
  • After appropriate training, carry out well- being checks and observations; to devise action points arising from the checks and ensure their implementation including referral to other agencies, when necessary.
  • Support service users and their carer in implementing health interventions and in monitoring their service users’ health.
  • Facilitate service users’ access to medical and health appointments and support each service user through these appointments ensuring that information is given to them in a way that they understand.
  • Ensure that treatment plans are made for treatment to be effectively implemented liaising with other carers, as required, and passing on any concerns to the supervising allocated clinician.
  • Respond to emergencies or sensitive issues as they arising as lone worker, using own initiative to take appropriate action.
  • Plan and implement health support groups; teach self-care skills and parental skills as appropriate.
  • Advise and support service users and carers within limited range of health topics, liaise and advocate, as necessary, to ensure advice is understood.
  • Ensure that all interactions with service users are accessible and adapted to their individual needs this includes using good skills in ‘plain English’ both spoken and written, pictorial and concrete symbols and prompts where appropriate.
  • Liaise with service users, families, carers and other agencies and professionals, as required, by the care plan.
  • Use good listening skills and be able to respond appropriately and sensitively when confronted by situations of conflict or high emotion.
  • Maintain effective channels of communication with team members, other professionals and agencies while adhering to the Trust’s confidentiality policy.
  • Overcome barriers to communication while monitoring and evaluating health interventions including training of service users to monitor their own health.
  • Act as an interpreter between generic health professionals and service users.
  • Know when to report concerns to Clinical lead or other health professionals as needed.
  • Have a working knowledge of, and considering specific health related issues with service users, for example, mobility, hygiene, epilepsy, healthy eating, diabetes management , dysphagia, occupation, respiratory disorders etc.
  • Actively promote individual patient choice and options within the care plan.
  • Participate in the monitoring and review of patients’ needs within the CLD Team.

Qualifications

  • Good standard of general education
  • Level 3 qualification (e.g., A-level, NVQ3) in Health Care.
  • Safety intervention trained or willing to undertake this training and update as required,
  • Will be expected to meet the Care Certificate standards within 12 weeks of commencing employment with the Trust,
  • I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Experience (Essential)

  • Minimum of 3 years experience working with adults with learning disabilities.
  • One to one working.
  • Personal care tasks

Desirable

  • Working within the NHS or similar large public organisation.
  • Community working with learning disabilities.

Skills & Abilities (Essential)

  • Ability to challenge poor behaviour
  • Role modelling good behaviour
  • A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
  • Dealing with people
  • Ability to praise and be supportive of others
  • Good communications written and verbal
  • Dealing with the public

Desirable

  • Ability to produce easy read materials for service users

Knowledge (Essential)

  • Communication
  • Literacy skills
  • Numeracy skills
  • Advocacy skills
  • Observation skills
  • Recording skills

Additional Criteria

  • Applicants should be able to work flexibly and with minimal supervision. The ability to cope with changing situations to routine is also important.
  • Able to meet the travel requirements of this community based role

Benefits

  • 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
  • Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
  • Flexible and agile working opportunities
  • Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
  • Wide range of supportive staff networks
  • Health and wellbeing opportunities

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications

Required Documents

  1. CV/Resume
  2. Cover Letter

Application Process

Interested and qualified candidates should kindly CLICK HERE to learn more and apply

Application Deadline

December 15, 2024

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