Job Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Community Nursing Service as a Band 3 Community Health Care Assistant currently based at Orbital in Swindon.
You will join an innovative and forward-thinking multidisciplinary team of Community Nurses and Healthcare Assistants where individual development, and progression is key.
As the way community services is delivered changes, our ethos is to provide a responsive patient centred approach. You will work seamlessly in collaboration with a variety of community services with the opportunity to provide care for a wide variety of patients.
We have a strong focus on flexible and agile working balanced alongside provision of high-quality services. We provide a 7-day service 07:00- 22:00 with an expectation that your working pattern will support this. This role offers the opportunity to flex across our community teams including Swindon End of Life Care Team (SELeCT) urgent community response, community nursing and Hospital at Home. Ensuring our patients receive the right care, by the right person, in the right place, at the right time is at the heart of what we do. Utilising this approach, we believe will enable you to maximise your clinical skills, development opportunities and job satisfaction.
Our vision is to transform the community healthcare provided in Swindon to focus on preventing and reducing hospital attendance, increasing the use of digitalisation, and empowering our patients to live healthy and independent lives. With a drive towards integrated neighbourhood teams, we believe this is an exciting time to join our service.
We offer a comprehensive induction programme that will suit your needs, interests and to help you develop your skills to be the best you can be, along with Continuous Professional Development opportunities. We feel passionate that everyone should feel valued when they encounter our organisation, whether that's you, someone we care for or the wider community we operate in.
“I have really enjoyed working here within a supportive team. It has enabled me to upskill and have the autonomy to make my own clinical decisions to improve my patients care. Working as part of the community team has provided me with a diversity of experiences and provides an inclusive working environment”.
As a Community Health Care Assistant for the Swindon Community Team, you will mainly cover the Swindon area. A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes is essential.
Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship on this role at this time.
Main Responsibility
As a Community Health Care Assistant, you will;
- Deliver care/treatment within a community setting, delegated by a registered practitioner and following an appropriate care plan.
- Keep the patient at the centre of his or her care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
- Be proficient in the use of electronic patient record system, have excellent communication and documentation skills that are clear, concise and accurate.
- To work independently within the community setting, visiting patients within their own home.
Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities
The Ideal Candidate
Essential
- Good general education.
- Care Certificate – or willingness to achieve.
- Experience of working under supervision.
- Experience of supporting other workers.
- Ability to work as a team member.
- Delivering patient focused care.
- Ability to recognise own limitations.
- Typing/data inputting skills.
- Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids.
- Undertake specific nursing/therapy skills.
- Driven to achieve.
- Self-motivated.
- Good time management
Desirable
- Experience of community working
- Experience of the NHS.
- Experience of work in an acute or urgent health care setting
- Basic wound care knowledge and skills
- Current full driving license and use of a car during working hours.
Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities
Package Description
As a Community Health Care Assistant, you’ll be part of our valued team based at Orbital in Swindon.
You will feel valued as a Community Health Care Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £24,486.00 (pro rata to hours worked) with access to our group pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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