We are currently recruiting for a Support Worker to join our Intermediate Care Team on a full-time permanent contract working 37.5 hours per week. The Moor to Sea Intermediate Care Team is based at Totnes Hospital, although we cover a large geographical area.
As a Support Worker for Intermediate Care Team (SWIC), you will assist Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, and Community Nurses working under supervision in providing an Intermediate Care Service to patients to promote faster recovery from illness, prevent unnecessary acute hospital admissions, support timely discharge, and maximise independent living within the recommended time frame of six to eight weeks.
On a daily basis, you can make a difference by helping patients through recovery and returning back to health and independence. A difference that you can make to an individual's quality of life.
We recognise the importance and impact clinical support can make a difference, and that's why we're looking for an ambitious and eager individual who also wants to make a difference within the healthcare profession.
You will interact and communicate with patients, carers, and relatives appropriately and effectively, taking behaviour and body language into account, in order to ensure information is understood by all concerned, while respecting individuals' privacy, dignity, wishes, and beliefs, and minimising any unnecessary discomfort at all times.
The Intermediate Care Team is part of an integrated, co-located, multi-disciplinary team. The main duties of this job are to help patients through recovery and return them back to health and independence.
We work in an integrated way with allied health care professionals within the locality and are a motivated and caring team to both patients and colleagues.
The team is flexible and promotes a healthy work/home life balance. Therefore, your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay.
Listed are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:
1. NHS Pension Scheme
2. Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full-time workers) plus bank/public holidays
3. Staff Discounts
4. Career development and training opportunities
5. Employee Support - Staff have access to a 24-hour helpline
Our people are caring, committed, inclusive, and focused on quality. We focus on solutions and people’s strengths. We encourage outside-the-box thinking and embrace innovation and change wherever it can drive improvement.
If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to Team Torbay and South Devon.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Communicate with a range of people on a range of matters that are appropriate to them and the situation.
2. Collect, collate, and record appropriate personally generated observations and report any significant changes that might be detrimental to the patient.
3. Work independently using a wide range of skills.
4. Teach patients, carers, and relatives the correct use of specialist equipment and daily living aids.
5. Place the Service User at the heart of the service.
6. Under supervision, assist in developing and restoring the function of the body using exercise and equipment for the patient to gain an optimum level of mobility.
7. Deliver nursing procedures, e.g. simple wound management, venipuncture, capillary blood sugar monitoring, and any other procedure deemed appropriate for or during the intermediate care period.
Full vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Ability to travel efficiently around the Bay is important in order to carry out your duties (e.g. Full driving licence and vehicle). Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.
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