Health Care Support Worker - Frailty SDEC (INTERNAL)
Wye Valley NHS Trust
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Job summary
***INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY***
Are you passionate about providing excellent care and promoting independence for frail elderly patients?
Do you want to work within an innovative team who will help you learn and develop your skills as a health care support worker?
We are looking for enthusiastic health care assistants with an interest in caring for frailty patients, to join our specialist Frailty team in Hereford County Hospital. Our FSDEC (Frailty Same Day Emergency Care) opened in September of last year and has played a major role in improving the journey of patients through the WVT frailty pathway. Patients who are admitted to our FSDEC are discharged via a number of pathways, including discharge back to their own home within 24 hours, to community hospitals for support with rehabilitation or on to our specialist frailty wards for further management.
We take pride in providing high quality, specialist care for our frailty patients and ensuring they are cared for in the right place, by the right people at the right time.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the role of a health care support worker on the FSDEC is to support the Registered Nurse with providing a high standard of patient care, providing personal care, helping patients with their dietary and fluid intake, helping them use the toilet and to assist with repositioning.
Good communication skills are essential in this role , alongside the ability to document and escalate any worries to the trained staff
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.
Date posted
19 March 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 2
Salary
£22,383 to £24,336 a year pa pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
229-MED-6145796
Job locations
Frailty SDEC, County Hospital
Stone Bow Road
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
Frailty SDEC, County Hospital
Stone Bow Road
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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