Healthcare Support Worker - Community Nursing

Job summary

We are offering a fantastic opportunity for a Healthcare Support Worker to join our Adult Community team working in practices based in Uttoxeter, Abbots Bromley and surrounding areas.

Health Care Assistant Band 3 for 22.5 hours a week.

The Adult Community Service provides care to patients in their own homes, covering care homes and working closely with our GP practices and our integrated services such as Physio, OT and Podiatry.

We are an innovative service covering GP practices in the Uttoxeter and surrounding villages' locality and we are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated Healthcare Assistant to work within our team.

We provide wound care, palliative and end of life care, leg ulcer management, continence and catheter care, management and administration of injections such as insulin and you will work independently in a community setting, participating in the ongoing assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care, adhering to policies and procedures.You will be required to work flexibly on a rota system across a 5 day working week, which will include bank holiday working but not weekends.

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Support Worker in this team, you will contribute to the assessment and implementation of programmes of treatment care/support for individuals, families and carers under the guidance of a registered practitioner.

The care/support plans may include the following:

• Promoting independence/self-management and maintaining safety
• Increased functional ability
• Improvement in health and wellbeing including mental health
• Interventions in disease/condition management
• Prevention and reducing of health inequalities
• Admission avoidance
• Early supported discharge
• Contribute to case management/ treatment care plans
• Palliative and end of life care
• Venepuncture

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications