Generic Support Worker

**Generic Support Worker**:
**Band 3**:
**Main area**
- Generic Support Worker
- **Grade**
- Band 3
- **Contract**
- Permanent: to include long days, weekends and bank holiday working
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-751-B**Site**
- Hayle Community Centre
- **Town**
- Hayle
- **Salary**
- £20,330 - £21,777 Per Annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a service delivering re-ablement in peoples own homes as part of the Penwith Home First service which is a collaborative approach between community, acute and social care providers.

You will need to demonstrate good communication skills and a positive approach to people who may have communication difficulties or who have challenging health needs.

You will be part of a dedicated team and will be provided with bespoke training to support your development in this role.

You will be required to work a rota that covers 7 days a week from 08:00 to 20:00. Flexibility within this rota, and geographical location, will be important.

A driving licence and access to a car are a requirement for this post. This is a lone worker post.

**Main duties of the job**:

- The main purpose for this post is to ensure that opportunities for patients’ reablement are optimised within a hospital and community setting.
- The post holder will be rostered with other Generic Support Workers to provide a 7 day a week service to inpatients and or community patients requiring reablement either during or after a hospital admission.
- The Reablement workers within each locality will form a part of an Integrated Care Pathway for frail patients that involve a range of services.
- This post holder will be expected to work with patients on the ward, in therapy areas and in the community, i.e. Residential homes and in patients own homes.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Just over 532,000 people live here. A third of