Home Safety Check Scheme Fieldworker- Band 3 - Gloucester, United Kingdom - Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Gloucester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are looking for a new member to our team:

The Home Safety Team, a countywide service for vulnerable children aged 0- 18, sits within the Children's' Occupational Therapy Service and has a key role in supporting children's safety in their home to reduce domestic accidents, and in educating others to support this aim.

The Home Safety Team aim to work with children and young people, their families, carers and other support personnel in creating an environment in which children and young people can be safe and enable them to succeed in reaching their full potential.

Support the Home Safety Scheme Lead and the Children's Occupational Therapy Team in ensuring that the equipment inventory is of high quality and meets the demands of the service.

Support the Lead in the delivery of the service to people within the service's catchment areas, ensuring that the inventory is monitored and controlled to ensure the financial stability of the scheme - maintaining and developing the services offered in line with the requirements of commissioning agencies.

Support the Lead in providing a professional, efficient and comprehensive service within the department fulfilling all the necessary tasks to facilitate and record and process patients 'interventions on all health record systems.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services.

We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust.

For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%).

It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:
89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West.

However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

Ensure that the equipment storage rooms are kept clean and secure at all times and that the necessary documentation is available to keep adequate records in line with organisational and departmental procedures and policy.

To report faults upon receiving equipment back from a service user thus ensuring that all equipment is prepared, clean - in line with organisational policy and ready to be issued upon requisition - acting as a role model to other support staff.

To collate statistical and qualitative data regarding the department's service level and key performance indicators.

To support the Home Safety Team Lead with the responsibility for ensuring that pool
vehicles allocated to the department are fit for purpose

To support the Home Safety Team Lead in evaluating and making improvements to policies and processes in order to provide a responsible, effective and safe service, whose impact may affect other areas of the service and make recommendations to such policies and processes.

To work in liaison and consultation with Children's Occupational Therapy to support the development and delivery of joint projects to improve the safety of children in Gloucestershire.

To take on additional duties as required within the Occupational Therapy Service.

To fit home safety equipment supplied by the service, this will include using hand & power tools.