Overview
Health Care Assistant – Gravesend
Our work is crucial to the community as we aim to prevent unnecessary hospital submission and support hospital discharges. In this role, you will care for patients by delivering our high service standards, sharing best practice, and actively helping to develop and improve the way we work.
We empower our staff to work as autonomous staff members, and as part of a multidisciplinary team, with the provision of ipads / tablets to promote remote working and enable staff to be out in the community supporting patients within their own home.
Main Responsibilities
- To assist in the provision of a high standard of planned individualized, holistic rehabilitation programmes for patients in the community, under the care of the Urgent Care Response and Intermediate Care Team, including recuperative and palliative care.
- To support the management and discharge of patients as part of the rapid response team. Will be required to work in the community in support of this.
- Being prepared to work over seven days per week in order to meet service needs.
- Will support general practice in early identification and anticipatory care planning for all patients identified at risk of admission to hospital in order that inappropriate admissions are avoided.
- To assist in providing nursing/therapy care as delegated by the Lead Therapist/Team Sister within patient’s homes. This includes providing short term personal care prior to a care package commencing e.g., washing, dressing, meeting all hygiene needs.
- To maintain knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to deliver a quality service that is responsive to the changing needs of patients.
- To participate in and support qualified team members in health promotion activities
- To provide clerical and administrative support to the team as delegated by the Lead Therapist/Team Sister
Ideal Candidate
With strong communication and organisation skills, and a flexible approach will ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey.
In this role, you will need to be able drive and have access in your own car, allowing you to travel across our services in a timely manner.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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