Health Care Support Worker

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Are you enthusiastic and committed to delivering high quality compassionate care to people in their own home , if so then a health care support worker role in community nursing is the ideal job for you.

We have vacancies in the north and south localities of Bradford ( part time post in Bingley 3 days and a full time post in the south of Bradford (Great Horton/Clayton area)

As a Health care support worker you will work as part of the planned care community nursing service delivering care to people living in their own home environment .

We will support you to develop skills that will enable you to carry out a variety of interventions, appropriately delegated by a clinician in the team. You will be given full training in wound care , continence care, diabetes management including insulin administration, you will also support patients who require support with enteral feeding regimes and medication administration . These are a few examples of the types of skills you will be developing with a comprehensive training package underpinning these skills

The successful candidate will have experience of working with patients ideally in the community setting and appropriate NVQ or equivalent qualifications or experience.

As an agile worker you will need to be able to move around Bradford independently as you will be visiting patients in their own home .

Main duties of the job

To work as part of the Adult Community Nursing Services over a 7 day period.

Ensuring high quality health care is delivered to patients in their homes as an integrated part of the mainstream Integrated District Nursing service. To work in collaboration with the wider Primary Health Care team, whilst participating in the assessment of health needs and delivering of care to the practice population. The service is delivered over a seven day rota. with a shift range from 8- 9pm 7 days a week

We have great development opportunities for our Health care support workers supporting apprenticeship programmes to undertake pre registration training to be come a registered nurse or Nursing associate.

About us

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Date posted

24 October 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£22,816 to £24,336 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

453-23-5749431

Job locations

various

Bradford

BD18 3EG

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and the person specification for more details about this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and the person specification for more details about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

GCSE Maths and English
NVQ Level 3 in H/S Care or equivalent
Care Certificate or be willing to complete within 10weeks of start date

Desirable

Calderdale Competencies
Phlebotomy skills
Basic Wound Care

Experience

Essential

Experience of working in an employed appropriate care role.

Desirable

Experience of working with patients with long term conditions
Wound care
Experience of working in a community care setting

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

GCSE Maths and English
NVQ Level 3 in H/S Care or equivalent
Care Certificate or be willing to complete within 10weeks of start date

Desirable

Calderdale Competencies
Phlebotomy skills
Basic Wound Care

Experience

Essential

Experience of working in an employed appropriate care role.

Desirable

Experience of working with patients with long term conditions
Wound care
Experience of working in a community care setting

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information