UCR Healthcare Assistant | Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust

Don't miss out on this opportunity to join the expanding Urgent Community Response Team. We are looking for Healthcare Assistants who enjoy the diversity and variety of caring for patients in crises within their own home, as well as supporting people to have the best possible quality end of life care. This role involves providing personal care, meal preparation and medication support, wound care, prompting prescribed exercise programmes, providing prescribed equipment and completing night-sits. Good communication and collaboration as part of the Urgent Community Response nursing and therapy team is essential. You will have regular supervision and professional development opportunities. Urgent Community Response is a short term service, we make people safe and refer them on to other appropriate services as needed. Our focus is primarily admission avoidance to secondary care, keeping people safe in their own homes, including people at the end of their life, and also supporting discharges from secondary care or in-patient units. Alongside these short term patients we also hold a caseload of insulins and therefore complete insulins, wound care and bloods alongside these patients. Due to the success of our service within the Norwich Place, we are recruiting additional Band 3 Healthcare Assistants to the Urgent Community Response team at this Outstanding organisation. Working alongside our existing HCAs, our nurses and therapists, you will assist in ensuring the continued successful delivery of this service. Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title. As part of the Urgent Community Response Team, you will be required:

• To contribute to the delivery of care pathways for patients with long term conditions, palliative care and rehabilitation needs for example, to achieve quality of life and independence where possible.
• To work within the Urgent Community Response Team to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital
• To work within the Urgent Community Response Team to support early discharge from hospital
• To work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutory agencies
to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.

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