Frailty Support Worker

Job summary

The Frailty Support Team within Southern Health is a unique model of care nationally. We support acutely unwell adults at home, who are experiencing a sudden decompensation in physical, psychological and/or social well being.

The Team is truly multi-professional; we currently have Consultant Practitioners, Registered Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Ambulance Technicians, Paramedics, Health Care Assistants, Apprentice Nurses, GP's and Administrators working across all the hubs. While we all work to our core strengths and abilities, we also help each other to develop new skills and acquire new knowledge that enables us to provide truly holistic, patient centred care.

The team operates from four bases. Each base has an established group of staff to provide continuity to our patients.

While the majority of working days will be based with your usual base, there is some requirement to work flexibly from time to time from our other three bases. These are located in Fordingbridge, Lymington, Totton and Eastleigh Southern Parishes. We provide a service to our patients 7 days a week between the hours of 08:30 and 20:00. Weekends are worked in rotation, approximately one in six.

Successful applicants will receive a comprehensive induction into the team and the Trust. We have regular in house training sessions and access to a wealth of internal training, external courses and conferences to maintain your clinical skills and develop new skills.

Main duties of the job

Our primary aim is to provide first class health care, in the home, giving our service users the choice to remain at home and recover more quickly.

The team has service improvement and development embedded at its very core! As a team member you will be encouraged to help us shape and develop the services that we provide to our patients and their families.

For people living with frailty, the experience of an episode of decompensation (such as a fall, reduced mobility or mental confusion) can be very distressing.

The consequences of frailty result in conditions that most GPs will recognise as being complicated and time consuming, and would benefit from input from a variety of professionals. In addition these patients frequently present directly and repeatedly to the ambulance service (often with a long delay for the ambulance at the scene) and are admitted inappropriately

Providing a more thorough and multi-disciplinary response to patients presenting with decompensated frailty will impact on:

GP workload and capacity;

SCAS workload and capacity;

A and E attendances and unplanned hospital admissions;

Providing the right care for patients at the right time, in the right place and delivered by the right health care professional

Providing a much better experience for patients and their carers/family

The job will include home visiting and lone working without direct supervision.

The scope of the role will focus on supporting admission avoidance.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Newtown House

2a and 2b Newtown Road

Eastleigh

Hampshire

SO50 9DB

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Newtown House

2a and 2b Newtown Road

Eastleigh

Hampshire

SO50 9DB

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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