Description

Healthcare Assistant (Community based) x5 positions
Location: Greater Nottingham (requires travel within the area)
Contract: Permanent (Full-time or Part-time)
Hours: 35, 30 or 20 hours per week (from Monday to Sunday, 7 hours per day)
Salary: £19,483 plus a Market Supplement of: £1,178.50 per annum (£20,661 per annum pro rata) (mileage paid at 45p per mile)

The salary includes a current pay supplement and is also pending a pay award from October 2022.

About the role

We are looking for an individual with a professional and ethical approach to their work to join our Independent Living (IL) team as a Healthcare Assistant in Nottingham. If you love helping people in need and transform their lives, this great opportunity to join ambitious and worldwide recognised charity might be for you!
As a Healthcare Assistant you will provide invaluable contribution to the Community Crisis Support Service and its users. You will provide short term crisis support to people in their homes, helping to keep them out of hospital. You will assess clients' needs and develop a care plan to fit them. Your duties will involve providing support with personal care, medication prompts, end of life care, light meal and drinks preparation and emotional support.
Hours: vacancy is for 35, 30 or 20 hours per week, you could be working across any of the over 7 days; Monday to Sunday. Shifts tend to be 7 hours per day. Shift patterns are 7.00am to 2.30pm daily or cover later shifts 2.30pm until 10pm and shifts are on a 4-week rolling rota working 2 weekends out of 4. You will receive your annual planned rota in advance.
We will work with you to try and make shifts compatible with your other commitments (for example, childcare, study etc)

About the team

Sometimes a little help can go a long way…

The Independent Living (IL) & Crisis Response (CR) service (IL/CR) are dedicated to making lives of vulnerable people a little bit better. We're a small team dotted all over the country that shares the same goal - to help those that need it most.

From picking up groceries to helping out around the house, we're there to make a difference. There's nothing better than knowing the time we spent with someone made them feel safer, happier, and more able to deal with crisis. Our goal is to prevent unnecessary hospital and Care home admissions and make people live a fulfilling life in the comfort of their own homes.


About the person

To be considered for this position you must have following skills and experience:

• NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in health and social care
• Educated to GCSE level (or equivalent by experience)
• Ability to communicate with health and social care professionals
• Ability to deal with service user queries in a diplomatic, professional and confidential manner
• Knowledge of supporting service users, who may be disabled and/or frail, cognitively impaired
• Good geographical knowledge of the service catchment area
• IT literate
• Good working experience of the delivery of social care support including personal care, feeding and medication prompting
• Knowledge of services provided by the NHS and Social Care
• Participation in a multi-disciplinary team environment
• Full driving license holder and access to vehicle, ability to use the vehicle on a daily basis for service user visits (Essential)
• Willingness to work flexible hours

The closing date for applications is 23.59 on Sunday 4th of September 2022 with interviews to follow

Please note that early application is encouraged, as we'll be reviewing applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert in advance of the advertised closing date.

Post source:jobs.theguardian.com

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BRITISH RED CROSS

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