Patient Support Worker - Oxford, United Kingdom - Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
3 weeks ago
Description
An exciting opportunity to join the Home Hospice Care Team as a Patient Support Worker has arisen.The postholder will provide care to people who are either likely to die within the next 2 weeks and are at home or require short term crisis support at home.
The Home Hospice Care Team (HHCT) is looking for Patient Support Workers to join our community based team.
The Home Hospice Care Team sits within the wider Oxfordshire Rapid Intervention for Palliative and End of Life Care project, as a separate team.
The Home Hospice Care Team primarily provides care to people who are likely to die within the next 2 weeks and are at home.
The team is also required to provide short term support to people who are in crisis.
The team operates 7 days a week from 7am-10pm and our staff work a mixture of early (7am-1.30pm) and late (3.30pm-10pm) shifts, including every other weekend.
The team covers the whole of Oxfordshire, so it is essential that the postholder has a full UK driving licence and a reliable car available for work.
You will be assigned to the base closest to where you live, for mileage purposes but will be required to cover the whole of Oxfordshire.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.
Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of this post.
Closing date: 30th March 2023
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