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Job overview

The Wellbeing Centre welcomes people with long term conditions, dementia and elderly people who need support to better care for themselves.

A therapeutic programme of care and activities is provided, as well as social interaction and respite for carers and family members. Refreshments are provided throughout the day, including a hot lunch.

You  will participate within the wellbeing centre in the provision of food production and other patient support activities.

You work closely with all users of our services and their families, friends and carers, who all play an invaluable contribution in how our users experience our services. 

Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship.  Therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom. 

Main duties of the job

• Keeping the people who use our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments escalating concerns to Registered Professional Staff
• Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence based policies and procedures within scope of assessed core competence
• Ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process.

Band 2 Well Being centre assistants / housekeeper who work in these services require a range of core skills as follows:

• To provide refreshments and undertake the provision of food production for the patients
• To actively work as a member of the multi-professional team to provide high quality care to patients
• To implement straightforward tasks and work guided by standard operating procedures and protocols and undertake roles/duties as delegated by the Assistant practitioner
• To undertake a variety of clinical intervention tasks after achieving appropriate core competencies delegated by the Assistant Practitioner

Working for our organisation

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

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