PAN TRADE Ellesmere Port, England, United Kingdom
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Main area: Community Health Support Worker
Grade: Band 3
Contract: Permanent: 27 hours (3 x 9 hour shifts)
Hours: Part-time - 27 hours per week (22.00 - 07.00 x3 shifts per week)
Job ref: 373-NBH0732-C RR
Site: The Work Place Hub, Coronation Road
Town: Ellesmere Port
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/02/2025 23:59
Job Overview: We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, motivated and reliable Community Health Care Support Worker, who is keen to deliver a range of quality care services to patients visited by the Community Health Support Team based at Civic Way, Ellesmere Port. The team visits patients and their carers of all the Integrated Community Care Teams across Western Cheshire.
As part of a friendly team, you should have experience of working in patients' homes, the ability to carry out tasks such as simple dressings, catheter care, personal care, recording blood sugars, and have experience of providing care for palliative patients. This post involves lone working, providing overnight care to those in the final days/weeks of life to patients in their own homes. Applicants should demonstrate their experience of palliative care and the qualities required to fulfil this requirement. This post requires travel across the Western Cheshire footprint, access to transport for work purposes is essential.
The hours are 27 per week, consisting of 3 x 9 hour shifts, worked on a rota basis between 22.00 - 07.00, including Bank holidays and weekends.
Main duties of the job: As part of a friendly team, you should have experience of working in patients' homes and the ability to carry out tasks such as simple dressings, catheter care, personal care, recording blood sugars, and have experience of providing care for palliative patients. This post involves lone working providing overnight care in patients' homes. This post requires travel across the Western Cheshire footprint, access to transport for work purposes is essential.
Working for our organisation: CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health, and all-age disability care including the provision of three GP surgeries. Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.
CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities: Please download a copy of the job description for full details. Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values. CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trusts Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are the 6 Cs: Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion, and Commitment. The supporting information section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trusts Values and associated behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential Criteria:
* Appropriate related qualification - or willingness to complete an apprenticeship appropriate to the Clinical Support Worker role
* Completion of or working towards an apprenticeship and gaining qualification equivalent to level 3 or above in a subject relevant to the role of Healthcare Assistant
* To demonstrate a range of work procedures and practices and to exhibit your knowledge and abilities
* Completion of or commitment to complete the Care Certificate (CWP In-house 2-day training to be completed within 3 months of start date)
Knowledge and Expertise Essential criteria:
* Understanding of need for confidentiality; empathy and sensitivity
Experience Essential criteria:
* The ability to demonstrate good quality care, whilst adhering to Trust policies and procedures, and working towards completing Care Certificate
* Experience of working collaboratively i.e., with colleagues, wider teams, service users etc.
* Supporting others in a care setting, whether this is experience in a professional or lived experience (friend, family, voluntary etc.)
Desirable criteria:
* Basic clinical skills including: Venepuncture, Skin care, Wound care, Clinical observations
* Experience of working in a community care setting including provision of personal care
Additional Information: If you consider yourself Neurodivergent and need help to complete your application form, please contact or telephone 01244 393100.
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