Job summary
- Main area
- Older Persons Services
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 153-ME03394
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Christchurch Hospital
- Town
- Christchurch
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 pa/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Healthcare Support Worker - Hospital at Home OPS service
Band 3
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
Hospital at Home are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Health Care Support Worker to join our newly developing service and friendly multi-disciplinary team.
Hospital at Home is a service alongside virtual wards specialities within Older Persons Services. Our aim is to provide excellent person-centred holistic care to our service users and their families.
Use of a car for transportation is essential. The role involves lone working at times.
This post offers the successful candidate incredible opportunity for career development as the service develops, as well as making an impressive impact on the unique service we provide.
Flexible working will be discussed during the interview
This post is being advertised as a Band 3, however applicants that do not meet the required care certificate competencies will initially be employed as a Band 2. Applicants who hold a care certificate accreditation will start in post at Band 3.
Based at: Christchurch, although traveling is required on a daily basis throughout the BCP locality
Interview date: TBC
tions.
Main duties of the job
The role will include implementation of care and on-going assessments of patients whom conditions and treatment can be met within their own home or within the community settings safety to prevent them from remaining within the acute settings when deemed appropriate. This includes venepuncture and cannulation.
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
In some cases this means that a services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert
Applicants also welcome to contact Sarah Hedges for further information about the post. Please email [email protected].
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good standard of numeracy and literacy
- Completion of a competency-based workbook or equivalent relevant experience to vocational level 3
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to adapt and learn in a health care environment
Technical Skills Competencies
Essential criteria
- Venepuncture and cannulation
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively (to understand and be understood)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Hedges
- Job title
- Nurse Clinical Lead H@H
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 019 5370
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