Band 4 Healthcare Assistant
HCRG Care Group
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Job summary
Job Introduction
Working closely with our Community Rapid Response Therapies Team, as a Healthcare Assistant you will support and assist the senior team members to provide rehabilitation to people in their own homes or within a clinic setting for a wide range of conditions including reduced mobility and reduced ability to manage activities of daily living. Our work is crucial to the community as we aim to prevent unnecessary hospital submission and supporting hospital discharges. In this role, you will care for patients in the way that you believe is best, delivering our high service standards, sharing best practice, and actively improving the way we work.
As part of our rapid response team we empower our staff to work autonomously and with flexibility by providing them with state of the art new tablets for them to be able to check in from home, write their notes up on the go and allow them to not be trapped in an office base, so they can really enjoy working in their chosen community background!
Main duties of the job
Main Responsibilities
Within this role, you will be expected:
- To actively work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to provide a high quality of occupational therapy and physiotherapy intervention to the patient.
- To actively participate in patient’s individual rehabilitation/programmes of care under the guidance of an appropriate professional.
- To also work with the MDT including GPs and colleagues in the local acute hospital in order to provide a rapid response short term intervention to persons who have been referred on the Discharge to Assess (D2A) and 2 hour rapid response pathway.
- To take responsibility for completion of basic assessment processes under the supervision of the relevant members of the MDT – to undertake Trusted Assessor Training when it becomes available.
- To provide and promote a high standard of rehabilitation of patients.
- To work autonomously as well as part of a team
- To be able to use and take initiative to seek additional work to assist the team as a whole (e.g. team administration tasks, being the first point of contact for patients, families and other health professionals, assisting in the maintenance of service equipment)
About us
After more than 10 years as part of the Virgin Group, Virgin Care was rebranded as HCRG Care Group on 1st December 2021 and was acquired by Twenty20 Capital bringing together their strengths, capability and expertise in the health and care services sector.
Date posted
06 April 2022
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£18,525 to £21,907.30 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
E0279-22-0370
Job locations
Gravesend
DA11 0DG
Employer details
Employer name
HCRG Care Group
Address
Gravesend
DA11 0DG
Employer's website
https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)
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