Complex Care Support Worker - Sudbury, Suffolk

Job description

Job responsibilities

Support Worker / Healthcare Assistant- Complex Care - Bury

Claimont Health have an exciting opportunity to join our team as Support Worker.

This role will be based in the community supporting clients who have complex health needs requiring a high level of care and support at home.

Are you a caring individual who is passionate about delivering person centred care? Do you believe you can make a positive impact to our clients lives? If so, we would love to hear from you. We are looking for individuals to join our team either on a Permanent or 0-hour contractual basis.

We are looking for Support Workers who have a proven track record of complex care experience and have supported clients with skills such as:

• Ventilation management
• Oral suctioning
• Medications

What you can expect from us in return:

Reporting to our Complex Care Lead Nurse, the successful candidate will benefit from the support and motivation of both the clinical and operations teams.

Competitive rates £15 per hour

Bank, Weekdays, Weekends

Its a great feeling seeing the resulting outcomes of your skills and expertise that enable our clients to use their strengths to improve their own well-being. Come and be part of our journey to be the leading independent sector provider of flexible, responsive, and dynamic complex care in the UK.

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• 1 year or more experience as a Healthcare Assistant with complex care experience.
• NVQ Level 3 related subjects.
• NVQ Level 4 related subjects.
• Nursery nurse qualifications or similar.
• Diploma in relevant health/ social subject.
• Commitment to delivering client specific care.
• Adaptable and Professional approach to support client and family members.

Our Mission and Values

Claimont's mission is to be the leading independent sector provider of flexible, responsive, and dynamic mental health services in the UK. The values we live by are:

• Commitment
• Care
• Compassion
• Leadership
• Innovation

Claimont Health follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each persons individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.

Claimont Health is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualifications:
• NVQ level 3 related subjects
• NVQ level 4 related subjects
• Nursery nurse qualification or similar
• Diploma in relevant health / social subject

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience in a similar role which demonstrates
• commitment to mandatory training, attendance, and engagement.
• Previous care experience in a health, social care, or childcare
• setting.
• Experience of communicating highly complex or sensitive
• information and using skills to overcome barriers to understanding,
• such as, with non-verbal clients.
• Understanding of Information Governance, Data Protection, Care
• Certificate standards, and safeguarding vulnerable children and
• adults.
• Experience of working in both acute and community settings.
• Experience with working within Mental Health.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Ability to provide good quality care
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to
• multi-task
• Be able to work on your own initiative and/or as part of team
• across multiple areas
• To be able to demonstrate tact and sensitivity when
• communicating with families under immense pressure, always
• reserving judgement and demonstrating empathy, compassion
• and understanding
• To maintain strict confidentiality on all matters relating to
• clients, their families
• High level of attention to detail, accuracy, and pride in your
• work presentation
• Claimont Health is specifically recruiting female applicants only in keeping with the positive action provision within the Equality Act 2010 order to meet patient needs and employee safety. This post is exempt under the Employment (Sex Discrimination) Act 2000, Section the (s9(2)(f)) Personal welfare and counselling which constitutes a Genuine Occupational Qualification. The role involves working with service users where there is a risk assessment identifying the need for a female candidate.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Claimont Health LTD

Address

Circle Group St. Edmunds Hospital

St. Marys Square

Bury St. Edmunds

Suffolk

IP33 2AA

Employer's website

https://claimonthealth.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)