Home First Therapy Support Workers

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from Salford, Bury, Rochdale and Oldham Care Organisations. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond - **come and take your place with us.**

Come and join Salford Care Organisation (SCO) for an exciting opportunity to work within our Intermediate Tier Services. This will be an exciting challenge and will give you the opportunity to play a key-supporting role in the development of the services. You will be working as part of a large multidisciplinary team that includes Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, Care Support Workers, Housing Officer, Assessment Officers and Administrators. Working as part of an integrated system with our other Community Services, this is an excellent opportunity to work as part of an innovative team, supporting SCO to deliver operational excellence and deliver a model to support discharge planning at the point of admission (a true Home First Approach).

**Main duties of the job**:
We are looking for a enthusiastic motivated individual's to join our Community Reablement Home First Team to assist the Therapy Healthcare Practitioner to carry out personalised care and recovery in the person’s own home. To provide support and person focused re-ablement as required to help ensure the efficient and effective running of the service.

To provide excellent customer service and establish and maintain communication between individuals, relatives, carers and the multidisciplinary team. To provide holistic patient care, correctly undertake tasks that have been delegated and to record information accurately and pass it on to the relevant people in the team in a timely manner.

Due to the role working in the community a Full Driving Licence and the use of own vehicle is essential.

You will possess excellent communication skills and have a proven track record of strong organisational skills. You must be able to work on your own initiative to organise and prioritise your own workload and balance this with the demands of this diverse and varied role.

The Service operates a 7 day service, currently covering the hours of 8am to 10pm, including weekends. You will be expected to work shifts to cover these hours and need to be flexible and rotating posts might be an expectation.

There are many opportunities to develop personal and professional skills within the community setting.

**Working for our organisation**:
**Salford Care Organisation**

Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place with an outstanding reputation. Salford is the place which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults. Twice rated Outstanding by the CQC, Salford Care Organisation is responsible for delivering a range of community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Level 1 Literacy & Numeracy

**Desirable criteria**:

- NVQ Level 2 or Care Certificate (or equivalent experience - in either Therapy or Health Care)

**Knowledge, Skills and Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Full Driving Licence is required and the use of own vehicle
- Good communication skills / the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post
- Understanding of routine work procedures gained through a short induction period and on the job training
- Experience of working with members of the public or a desire to work in the Health Service
- Basic IT skills

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience of working within a health or social care environment
- Experience of working within a team
- Good organisational skills

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