Rehab Support Worker - Beccles, United Kingdom - East Coast Community Healthcare CIC

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Job summary

Rehabilitation Support Worker - Primary Care Home- Waveney

Hours of work hour and 12 hour shift

Worked between core hours of hours

Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you have excellent communication skills, consider yourself to be caring and compassionate and want to make a difference to the patients experience on a daily basis?

We are looking for a part time Community Rehabilitation Worker to join our primary care home which is a multidisciplinary team of nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapist, assistant practitioners, paramedic, health care assistants working closely with GP's, social services and other community providers to provide an excellent standard of person centered care to adults in their own homes, residential care or 'beds with care', supporting people to self manage whenever possible. The service uses SystmOne as a clinical IT system to support mobile working.

This role attracts paid enhancements for out of hours,bank holiday and weekend working.

Main duties of the job

As a support worker within the team you will be providing care and support to ensure the patients needs and goals are met, regularly liaising with team members to identify and report any changes in the patients condition. This includes daily rehabilitation programs with patients around but not limited to physical rehabilitation, personal care such as support with washing, dressing and toileting and meals.

The Primary Care Home provides a 24/7 service and successful applicants will be required to work a variety of shifts including weekends and bank holidays.

Previous experience of a caring role or community work would be an advantage however consideration will be given to the right candidate. The Care Certificate is required. If you do not already hold this certificate, you will be supported to complete the Care Certificate programme on commencing employment with East Coast.

In order to achieve our purpose to deliver high quality services East Coast Community Healthcare is building an 'intentional culture'. The EVOLVE culture programme is for all employees.

We Listen, We Learn, We Lead

Work Together, Achieve Together

My Accountability, My Responsibility

Be Cost Conscious, Respect our Resources

All employees will be able to relate to these behaviours and are expected to positively demonstrate them in the workplace. Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate how they embody our values and commitments and a desire for personal development

About us

ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.

We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.

At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.

We encourage you to apply as early as possible as this job may close earlier than the advertised closing date once enough applications have been received.

Job responsibilities

Contribute to, support and promote ECCHs,strategic direction, values and culture in relation to primary care homeservices.

Communicate effectively with patients,relatives and carers, respecting patient confidentiality with privacy andrespect for diverse cultural backgrounds and requirements.

Communicate routine information to patients,relatives or carers, using skills of persuasion, reassurance, tact and empathyas required.

To support relatives at all times and be awareof the effects of illness on the family.

Enable individuals and their families toexpress their needs and preferences and take appropriate action to overcomebarriers to communication.

To support and deliver aspects of activites ofdaily living. To include management of dietary and fluid intake, management ofcontinence, assisting with toileting programmes, including use of sheaths,catheters and continence pads.

To promote confidence in the patient by meansof appropriate standards of appearance, behaviour and attitudes

Check compliance with medication- Prompt,assist and manage medication as directed by Medication Administration Recordchart. Reporting any problems with medication and/ or compliance.

To safeguard the confidentiality of allpersonally sensitive information.

Contribute to the clinical governance agendathrough participation in clinical audit.

Create an environment conducive to effectiveworking, respecting and supporting staff to deliver high quality clinicalservices.

Work as part of the multidisciplinary PrimaryCare Home to deliver planned and unplanned services.

Work with patients towards self-care andindependence.

Participate in caring for patients at the endof life when appropriate.

To implement the care as planned taking intoaccount own competencies.

Take, record and report blood pressure,respiration, pulse rate, oxygen saturation levels, urinalysis. Be able torecognise and report the deteriorating condition of a patient

To report any concerns / changes in thepatients condition to a registered nurse or appropriate Health care Professionalwithout delay.

Undertake skin assessments. Undertake like forlike dressing change if required.

Provide walking aids, provide and fit smallaids and equipment as directed.

Ensure a high standard of record keeping isachieved in line with ECCH standards.

Engage in personal development, maintaincompetence, knowledge and skills commensurate with role

Take responsibility for the safe use ofclinical equipment,

Contribute to the effective use of resources.

Report anyconcerns/ changes in a patients condition toa registered health care professional without delay.

All roleswithin East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate ourValues and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide to patients,service users, stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staff shouldconsider these as an essential part of their job role.

Our Values outline the core behaviours that wecan all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word CARE . These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone .

Underpinning our Values are our SignatureBehaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build astrong culture. Our four SignatureBehaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn,We Lead| Action - MyAccountability, My Responsibility | Respect - RespectOur Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together .

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

Experience

Essential

Desirable

Personal Attributes

Essential

Desirable