Home Care Practitioner

3 weeks ago


Workington, United Kingdom North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

2 x 36 hour posts available

Although it is a part time each post is 36 hours

Working along side the community team with a special interest in palliative care and rehabilitation.

The team delivers care to patients which includes supporting with Activities of Daily Living, including personal care, catheter care, meal provision and support with nutrition and medication. End of life support and comfort. Care should be delivered in such a way to promote independence where possible and as part of an ongoing plan to support the patient to remain in their own home.

Care is delivered to ensure patients have a safe and timely discharge from hospital and prevent readmission or admission to hospital.

Home Care Practitioner

Where possible to promote independence with service users following the care plans put in place by therapy staff.

Supporting patients at the end of their life to ensure that care needs are met and service users are

To deliver a high quality of personal care to a patient within their own home.

Documenting all visits on EMIS accurately and feeding back any concerns to your team lead/therapy staff.

You will need to have excellent communication skills.

You will be part of a very motivated team -who deliver a high quality of care and rehabilitation to service users within their own home.

The team works 7 days per week, 365 days per year across between 08:00 and 22:00, staff may be expected to change their shifts pattern and work outside these hours with limited notice.

You must be a car driver with access to a car as the post will require you to travel between service users homes.

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’.

Being a clinically led organisation

Quality and safety at the heart

A positive patient experience every time

A great place to work

Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust’s sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.

We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute in to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies?

The essential criteria for this role includes the requirement to have a care certificate or the willingness and ability to undertake this. For further information, please see the additional information link which can be viewed under the “read this before applying” section.

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

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