Healthcare Support Worker

You will be required to work as part of a busy community nursing team based around all areas of Telford who provide nursing care to patients who are housebound in the community. The post requires you to have a full UK driving licence and your own car. You must have excellent phlebotomy skills and experience in phlebotomy for this role as completing blood samples will be the main clinical tasks required.,

• Providing patient care to patients within the community, often in patients own homes.
• Undertake delegated wound care and wound photography for patients with simple / routine care needs with appropriate training according to plan of care for the patient.
• Provide delegated simple continence support to patients such as catheter management education with appropriate training according to the plan of care for the patient.
• Work under the supervision of a community nurse escalating any patient risks or deviation to the plan of care when required.
• To organise own phlebotomy workload in the most time effective way whilst meeting the priority time scale requested by the referrer.
• Undertake community phlebotomy within the priority timescale requested by the referrer and to patients who are unable to access a phlebotomy clinic, escalating any inappropriate referrals to the service.
• Obtain specimen samples as directed and ensure all specimens are transported to the laboratory or point of sample collection within Trust policy and procedures.
• Assist in the holistic care of patients by escalating any concerns with the patients wider physical, social, psychological care needs / activities of daily living.
  
  Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.