Community Health Care Assistant

We are redesigning our community services model and implementing a new Intermediate Care Team and therefore exciting opportunity has arisen to employ community health care assistants to deliver Urgent Community Response services (provides care 8am to 10pm, 7 days a week) and will play a crucial role in providing essential support and care to individuals, with a focus on promoting independence, dignity, and well-being. This is an opportunity for someone who wishes to continue to progress their career in nursing. This role will support patients to recover or rehabilitate after a period of illness or crisis by implementing planned Intermediate Care for individuals in their own home, maintaining a high standard of evidence-based practice to meet identified needs whilst being supported by a multi-disciplinary team of Doctors, Nurses, Therapists and Allied Health professionals., Provide support for avoiding admission to hospital when clinically safe to do so, through appropriate community based care and support, which includes providing personal care to patients, performing vital observations, and venepuncture and maintaining accurate records. Follow intervention plans formulated by a Health Care Professional within agreed parameters in order to allow patients to maximise their functional independence. Utilise knowledge and understanding of common physical, mental and behavioural health conditions to recognise deterioration in service users.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf. We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.