Community Support Practitioner

at  Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Would you like to be a Band 3 Community Support Worker in our community 2-hour community response team? This includes the Ageing Well Programme, Integrated Service Delivery, Enhanced Health in care homes, and Anticipatory care aimed at people living with frailty to help them keep independent and healthy in their own homes for as long as possible.
Our service will be delivered across Scarborough, and Ryedale Community, encompassing travel across market towns, the moors, the seaside and the coast within daily working.
Community Support Practitioners will work in our Community Team, providing clinical care in patients’ own homes and care homes. There will be an excellent induction programme and clinical supervision support, alongside the opportunity for professional development.
Day to day, the role includes the following care carried out in the patient’s own home under supervision/delegation of therapists/ registered nurses:
Patient care following a fall
Moving & handling of patients
Vital observations
End of life care and urgent support for people living with frailty
Recognise and escalate issues of concern and/or safety
Assisting with activities of daily living, e.g., personal care tasks, meal preparation following injury/illness to prevent hospital admission
Urgent equipment provision & instruction in use
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
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