Therapeutic Care Support Worker: ‘Hospital to Home’ Team
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Job Summary
We are offering an exciting opportunity to join the UHP Hospital to Home Team. This service has been developed to support early discharge from hospital and provide therapy reablement in the community to frail and vulnerable Adults across Plymouth.
Main duties of the job
The Hospital to Home team is an integrated service working in partnership with our health and social care colleagues to help reduce the need for people to remain in hospital and to help to re-build independence in their own home.
On discharge, the therapeutic care support workers will be providing therapeutic interventions and exercise to service users to maximize their potential and achieve independence to remain living in their own home. This will include intimate personal care, continence care, Moving and Handling to continuously work towards the service user's independence.
You will receive professional ongoing training, comprehensive induction and teaching from a variety of therapy specialists to ensure you can deliver a fully holistic therapeutic package.
You will be expected to work on a rolling roster, including weekend shifts. Service hours are between 07:00-22:00, 365 days of the year.
Ability to travel between sites, as you will need to travel across the area, and you will be paid travel from your office base.
About Us
We are a people business - where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment.
Job Description
Responsibilities
Job responsibilities include providing therapeutic interventions and exercise to service users, assisting with personal care, and promoting independence.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
* NVQ / diploma in healthcare or equivalent level 3 or equivalent demonstrable experience working in a therapeutic care role involving physically impaired and vulnerable people.
Knowledge Essential
* Proven evidence of understanding of principles of providing therapeutic care and or exercise.
* Broad range healthcare demonstrable experience.
Aptitude/Abilities Essential
* Effective Interpersonal and communication skills
* Excellent organisational skills, ability to manage own time, prioritise and plan timed activities
* Committed to participating in service improvement initiates.
Disposition/Motivation/Attitude Essential
* Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
* Proven evidence of working practice in line with current UHP values.
* Ability to recognise own limitations.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name: University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
Address: Community, Plymouth, PL6 8DH
Employer's website: University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
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