Community Support Worker Hospital@Home

Wye Valley Nhs Trust

Community Support Worker Hospital@Home

£24336

Wye Valley Nhs Trust, Abbey Dore, County of Herefordshire

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 2 weeks ago, 3 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: d830d316332e445e80d88e5fc8026e2d

Full Job Description

You will be given the opportunity to learn new skills and knowledge required to become competent in supporting patients across community settings.''

To provide effective individualised patient care as delegated by the Hospital@Home Nursing Team.

To facilitate multidisciplinary patient centred care. To maintain the safety, dignity and well-being of people in your care at all times.

Assist qualified Nursing staff in a range of patient care duties.

To undertake a range of delegated nursing tasks, including cannulation and taking blood or urine samples, carrying out basic wound assessments and applying simple dressings, taking routine observations and supporting clients with medication.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view 'supporting documents' linked to this vacancy.