Senior Support Worker

Permanent Post within Stockport Foundation Trust D2A / Active Recovery Team

Are you motivated, enthusiastic and reliable ? Do you wish to make a difference within Community Services? We are looking to recruit a Band 3 Senior Support worker who will provide nursing/therapy and social care to patients within their own homes, carrying out delegated clinical therapeutic and personal care interventions. You will be able to communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising their needs for alternative methods of communications. You will carry out care/other duties under indirect supervision of a registered professional.

The Discharge to Assess and Active Recovery Teams are an innovative and exciting service, aiming to facilitate timely discharges to the residents of Stockport. Working as part of a lively and dynamic multi professional community team, you will deliver holistic support and interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals in their usual residence. In joining our team you will be helping us to drive our ambition of an improving the health and wellbeing of people by working across organisational boundaries. There is also the opportunity to further your career to band 4 roles within the team.

Discharge to Assessis a multi-professional team consisting of highly skilled and motivational staff who assess and plan episodes of care following discharge from hospital and into the community. These person centre, holistic assessments provide the basis of personal and therapeutic care needs and also facilitates the transfer of care to the most appropriate services; Health, Adult Social Care or partner agencies.

Active Recovery consists of rehabilitation specialists who work holistically and with an individualised focus to provide a short term rehabilitation service to those deemed medically stable and require no hospital care. This element of the service is free at the point of contact and incorporates the Stockport Trust ethos of minimizing hospital admissions and keeping our patients safe and rehabilitated in their own residence.

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:

- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discount.
- Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union
- for local financial advice
- Access to staff wellbeing services

The multi professional team consists of highly skilled registered nursing staff, occupational therapists and physiotherapists. Complimenting our registered staff, we excel in providing a large team of Senior support workers and Community rehabilitation support workers. As a valued member of the team, you will be expected to liaise with colleagues across all sectors to facilitate discharge but also work independently to plan care and implement from a patient centred approach.

The team provides a seven day service, therefore this entails working some weekends, bank holidays and late shifts as core hours range from 8am - 9pm. The post is community based, delivering assessments and interventions in their usual domiciliary setting, therefore independent travel with a full UK driving license to deliver the role is essential. The team base is central to Stockport at Regent House, Heaton Lane, Stockport. SK4 1BS.

We promote a positive ethos on personal and professional development, providing access to training and supervisions. You will be offered induction, supernumerary working and full access to mandatory training. Furthermore, CDP is fully supported and very much encouraged. Regular PDR's and reflective supervisions provided alongside peer support sessions in the form of multi disciplinary and profession specific team meetings.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately. Mileage expenses paid monthly.

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