Healthcare Assistant Apprentice

Job Introduction
As a **Healthcare Assistant Apprentice,** you’ll be making a difference in the community as we provide vital community NHS health and care services helping people to manage their own health and stay living independently for longer.

Working within our Community Rapid Response Team, you will support and assist team members to provide rehabilitation to people in their own homes for a wide range of conditions, including reduced mobility and reduced ability to manage activities of daily living. Our work is crucial to the community as we aim to prevent unnecessary hospital submission and support hospital discharges. In this role, you will care for patients by delivering our high service standards, sharing best practice, and actively helping to develop and improve the way we work.

As part of our Community Rapid Response Team we empower our staff to work as autonomous staff members, and as part of a multidisciplinary team, with the provision of ipads/ tablets to promote remote working and enable staff to be out in the community supporting patients within their own home.

Main Responsibilities
Within this role, you will be expected:

- To actively work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to provide a high quality of nursing, occupational therapy and physiotherapy intervention to the patient.
- To actively participate in patient’s individual rehabilitation/programmes of care under the guidance of an appropriate professional.
- To also work with the MDT including GPs and colleagues in the local acute hospital in order to provide a rapid response short term intervention to persons who have been referred on the Discharge to Assess (D2A) and 2 hour rapid response pathway.
- To take responsibility for completion of basic assessment processes under the supervision of the relevant members of the MDT - to undertake Trusted Assessor Training when it becomes available.
- To provide and promote a high standard of rehabilitation of patients.
- To work autonomously as well as part of a team
- To be able to use and take initiative to seek additional work to assist the team as a whole (e.g. team administration tasks, being the first point of contact for patients, families and other health professionals, assisting in the maintenance of service equipment).

As this is a community role, it is essential that you have a **valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes.**

About The Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Package Description
As an **Apprentice Healthcare Assistant**, you will complete a nationally recognised **Level 3 senior healthcare support worker qualification**, with diploma in healthcare awarded through City and Guilds. To support you in successfully completing your programme you’ll be given **monthly learning days with weekly study time to develop your knowledge and skills.**

A **dedicated assessor** who will support you in your journey and help you realise and achieve your career aspirations. A work mentor who works in your department to support you through your apprenticeship and settle you into your new role.

You can find out more about this qualification here Senior Healthcare Support Worker Level 3 - TLE (thelearningenterprise.co.uk)

We also offer the **care certificate** to all our unregistered health care professionals. This is the start of your education and training with us and forms part of a robust induction programme giving you the fundamental evidence-based training to support you in your role with us.

**Along with receiving this professional development opportunity, you will also have access to exclusive reward and benefits including**:

- Salary of **£21,000 and a group pension**:

- **Membership of My Reward Hub**, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- **Access to your wages as you earn them** to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- **Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing** - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- **Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportun