Job summary
Urgent Response Team Senior Healthcare Technician - Band 4
We are looking for experienced, enthusiastic individual to join our Urgent Response Team in Haringey. The team consists of Nurses, Therapists and Technicians. The team works with adults of all ages and is based on achieving client-centred goals in a time oriented way. Therefore experience in working with older people and people with physical disabilities is essential. It will be beneficial to have experience working in the community.
The post holder will work closely with Haringey Virtual Ward and Rapid Response team (RRVW). You will be expected to provide a high standard of nursing care and therapy and contribute to the prevention of unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitate early discharge from hospital. You will work with health professionals providing a high standard of nursing care, which reflects the NVQ3 Care competencies to all patients living in the Community.
To work in a progressively independent manner in assisting the therapists with assessments, treatments and discharges.
To work in a sensitive and enabling way, taking account of the service's commitment to diversity and equality.
To observe client progress against treatment aims, goal plans within the team, and to report and discuss these observations with the therapist/nurse responsible for the treatment.
As part of this exciting team, you will be added to the weekend rota (enhanced pay) as the service will be working 7 days a week
Main duties of the job
- Participate in the assessment of care/therapy needs and the implementation of programmes of care in partnership with patients/carers in their own homes.
- To form professional relationships with clients, and communicate with them in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture.
- Identify changes in patients' conditions and, within their capabilities, recognise where significant changes in the care plan are required and report these back to the senior nurse on duty in a prompt and timely manner.
- Liaise effectively with other nursing and multi professional team members within the scope of the Health care Assistant role and report back to the nurse in charge.Provide administrative support to the team.
- Senior role model in HCA/TA team
- Involvement in training and development of HCA/TA team
- Ensuring high standards of care are maintained and ICARE values incorporated into daily practice
- Liaison with Community Matron and Occupational Therapist to maintain high standards of care in HCA/TA team and wider MDT
About us
Working for your organisation should read: Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
- To work effectively as a member of the team to assist in planning and implementing the care plans and treatment programmes, under the guidance of the occupational therapist, physiotherapist or speech and language therapist.
- To form professional relationships with clients, and communicate with them in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture.
- To liaise with relatives, carers and other agencies to obtain or feedback sensitive information relating to the clients rehabilitation programme.
- Under the direction of the qualified therapist/nurse to provide a range of managed activities, instructing and guiding clients to support them in achieving identified goals.
- In a sensitive and tactful manner, use clinical knowledge and life skills to build up a rapport with the clients, so as engage them and motivate them to participate in their therapy.
- To assist with assessments, under the guidance of the qualified therapist/nurse, and provide feedback and analysis on the clients functioning and progress in the areas of self-care/maintenance, leisure, communication and physical abilities.
- be competent with additional clinical skills such as BP and blood sugar monitoring.
- To advise on, deliver, test and fit specified equipment in patients homes as directed by the therapist/nurse, taking different needs of the clients into consideration.
- To undertake delegated tasks to contribute to the safe and effective running of the service.
- To attend meetings about clients as appropriate.
- To keep up to date and accurate clinical records, maintained in accordance with Trust and departmental standards, and to provide a clear record of intervention from the team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
- To work effectively as a member of the team to assist in planning and implementing the care plans and treatment programmes, under the guidance of the occupational therapist, physiotherapist or speech and language therapist.
- To form professional relationships with clients, and communicate with them in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture.
- To liaise with relatives, carers and other agencies to obtain or feedback sensitive information relating to the clients rehabilitation programme.
- Under the direction of the qualified therapist/nurse to provide a range of managed activities, instructing and guiding clients to support them in achieving identified goals.
- In a sensitive and tactful manner, use clinical knowledge and life skills to build up a rapport with the clients, so as engage them and motivate them to participate in their therapy.
- To assist with assessments, under the guidance of the qualified therapist/nurse, and provide feedback and analysis on the clients functioning and progress in the areas of self-care/maintenance, leisure, communication and physical abilities.
- be competent with additional clinical skills such as BP and blood sugar monitoring.
- To advise on, deliver, test and fit specified equipment in patients homes as directed by the therapist/nurse, taking different needs of the clients into consideration.
- To undertake delegated tasks to contribute to the safe and effective running of the service.
- To attend meetings about clients as appropriate.
- To keep up to date and accurate clinical records, maintained in accordance with Trust and departmental standards, and to provide a clear record of intervention from the team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good basic education
- NVQ or similar qualifications
Experience
Essential
- Experience of planning and achieving a task with others
- Ability to carry out a task independently
- Experience of working within a team
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Good personal organisational skills
- Ability to teach practical skills to clients
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Understanding of confidentiality
- Time Management and prioritising skills
- Positive interpersonal skills
- Good observational skills and ability to interpret the observations.
- Ability to assess a situation and react appropriately
- Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of people with disabilities
- Basic computer skills i.e. email, internet
Other
Essential
- Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning and professional development
- Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of people from different ethnic, cultural and economic backgrounds.
- Ability to respond flexibly to change
- Good self awareness and knowing own personal limits
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good basic education
- NVQ or similar qualifications
Experience
Essential
- Experience of planning and achieving a task with others
- Ability to carry out a task independently
- Experience of working within a team
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Good personal organisational skills
- Ability to teach practical skills to clients
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Understanding of confidentiality
- Time Management and prioritising skills
- Positive interpersonal skills
- Good observational skills and ability to interpret the observations.
- Ability to assess a situation and react appropriately
- Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of people with disabilities
- Basic computer skills i.e. email, internet
Other
Essential
- Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning and professional development
- Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of people from different ethnic, cultural and economic backgrounds.
- Ability to respond flexibly to change
- Good self awareness and knowing own personal limits
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
