Health Care Support Worker- Community

Do you want to be part of an _**_innovative, dynamic organisation _**_that is _**_committed to _**_delivering _**_quality, safe and effective patient care _**_?NELFT provides award winning community healthcare. We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Wanstead & Woodford District Nursing Team in Redbridge. The post holder will be responsible for managing a defined group of patients and will also be supporting the qualified staff member to nurse patients individually in their own homes.
- Work as part of the team to provide care to patients in their own homes.
- Responsible for own work and that of others within a broad framework.
- Carrying out and monitoring treatment as per care plan.
- Forming part of an interdependent multi-disciplinary team helping to ensure that their input is integrated in to the patients overall care and treatment plans.
- Promoting the recovery of patients and maintain their independence in the community.
- Car Driver Essential
- Working hours may include the need to cover bank holidays and an occasional weekend rostered on duty
- We are offering 2 full time contracts and may consider flexible working patterns to meet the needs of the service and support your work life balance.

As a Healthcare Support Worker the post holder will follow the Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers in England:

- Be accountable by making sure you can answer for your actions or omissions.
- Promote and uphold the privacy, dignity, rights, health and wellbeing of people who use health and care services and their carers at all times.
- Work in collaboration with your colleagues to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare, care and support.
- Communicate in an open, and effective way to promote the health, safety and wellbeing of people who use health and care services and their carers.
- Respect a person’s right to confidentiality.
- Strive to improve the quality of healthcare, care and support through continuing professional development.
- Uphold and promote equality, diversity and inclusion.

**COVID Vaccinations**
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. To comply with our duty of care we require our staff to have the COVID vaccine and we will ask for proof of vaccination during the recruitment process. Vaccination will be a condition of employment unless an exemption applies.

**Probationary Period**

**Assessment/Interview info**
At NELFT we set very high standards to ensure we provide quality services. We require prospective employees to carry out an online literacy and numeracy test, equivalent to NVQ Level 2. For more information regarding our assessments, please visit our website. If you are shortlisted, invited for interview and successfully offered the post, you will be required to undertake an assessment for these skills during the pre-employment checks.

**Starting with NELFT**
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction.

**High Cost Area Supplement - London**
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £3,899 and a maximum payment of £4,968).

For further details / informal visits contact:
Valerie Murray, Clinical Nurse Lead - Redbridge

or

Kim Mills, Team Lead, Community Nursing Team, Wanstead & Woodford

As an employee of NELFT, you will receive the following benefits:

- Excellent working environments
- Agile working with outstanding ICT support
- A award-winning approach to Equality and Diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities and LGBT staff
- Staff Benefits including NHS Pension, Tusker car scheme, discount schemes, cycle scheme and Annual Leave Sale / Purchase scheme, trade union membership
- A focus on staff health and wellbeing featuring subsidised gym membership, access to Mindfulness, walking groups and other wellbeing support.

We have signed the skills pledge and are an accredited Improving Working Lives organisation. We are committed to staff development and offer opportunities which include a wide range of training options and an active Quality Improvement Programme

**Correspondence with us**

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