Job summary If you love working in a Community setting, we have a great opportunity for a Health Care Support Worker to join Chippenham Community Team. This role will be for 28 hours per week worked over 4 or 5 days. The team is based in Chippenham Community Hospital and provides patient care between 07.00 22.00 hours with shift patterns including some weekends and late shifts which can be flexible. Our core shifts are 8.30-4.30. The team supports patients who are registered with GP practices in the Chippenham locality, and we work closely with the wider Multi-Disciplinary team, carers, and voluntary services. The role is very rewarding and will include supporting patients and providing effective nursing-based interventions in patients homes and other community settings. Our caseload includes patients with palliative care needs, tissue viability needs and a range of acute and long-term conditions. You will need excellent interpersonal and communication skills and will be expected to have a Care Certificate and Level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support or be willing to work towards this. We are proactive in developing community specific training and can offer a supportive and friendly environment in which to learn new skills, a range of training and development opportunities, including an induction program. Our Band 3 Healthcare Support Workers will be supported to achieve a wide range of competencies including w Main duties of the job To implement treatment by following care plan. To keep the patient at the centre of his or her care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making. To undertake the daily care and support of delegated patients. Deliver treatment/care within a community setting as specified in a written care plan, under the guidance of a registered practitioner. Wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure that patient receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting. Responsibility for the day-to-day care of patients including monitoring. Support the taking of medication under the authorisation of the qualified practitioner. To have a good knowledge of infection control, to reduce risk of health care acquired infections. To enable patients to reach their optimum level of independence. Support terminally ill patients and their carers/relatives. To communicate with individuals about routine and daily activities, this may include overcoming difficulties (e.g. hearing/language). To ensure the needs and wishes of the individual are documented. To work within a multi-professional team To undertake specific tasks as delegated. & About us About the Company We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2 Date posted 13 February 2025 Pay scheme Other Salary £23,100 to £24,675 a year Contract Permanent Working pattern Part-time Reference number HCRGCG/TP/111228/13942 Job locations HCRG Care Group Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 2AJ Job description Job responsibilities As a Health Care Support Worker, youll be part of our valued team at our Chippenham Community Team, Chippenham Hospital. You will feel valued as an Health Care Support Worker within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: Salary of £23,100 with group pension Free tea and coffee at your base location Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission Good general education. NVQ Level 3 in health care or willingness to achieve. Experience of working under distanced supervision. Experience of supporting other workers Ability to work as a team member. Delivering patient focused care. Ability to recognise own limitations. Typing/data inputting skills. Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids. Undertake specific nursing/therapy skills. Current full driving license and use of a car during working hours. Willing to work in other areas of HCRG Care Group as and when required to do so. Driven to achieve. Self-motivated. Good time management Food Hygiene certificate or willingness to undertake. Job description Job responsibilities As a Health Care Support Worker, youll be part of our valued team at our Chippenham Community Team, Chippenham Hospital. You will feel valued as an Health Care Support Worker within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: Salary of £23,100 with group pension Free tea and coffee at your base location Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission Good general education. NVQ Level 3 in health care or willingness to achieve. Experience of working under distanced supervision. Experience of supporting other workers Ability to work as a team member. Delivering patient focused care. Ability to recognise own limitations. Typing/data inputting skills. Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids. Undertake specific nursing/therapy skills. Current full driving license and use of a car during working hours. Willing to work in other areas of HCRG Care Group as and when required to do so. Driven to achieve. Self-motivated. Good time management Food Hygiene certificate or willingness to undertake. 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