UCR Healthcare Support Worker- Church Stretton

Would you like to be a crucial part of an innovative project? An exciting opportunity has arisen for Health Care Support Workers to join the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Virtual Wards across all the localities.

The Virtual Ward is a system wide initiative, working in partnership to provide our patients with access to rapid assessment, treatment, virtual monitoring and care planning to stabilise and support an acute episode of ill health or a deteriorating chronic condition that would alternatively require admission to hospital.

The service offers an appropriate alternative to admission pathway, which aims to deliver a recommended and agreed medical, nursing & therapeutic treatment plan. The focus is supporting the safe management of people in their own home. The role and service offer integration and partnership working across the system to ensure a seamless service.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications are received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible to support the delivery of quality healthcare interventions to patients living in their own environment in the community, in order to meet their health and wellbeing needs, and to facilitate re-ablement support in order to maximise a patients functional independence at point of referral.

You will support individuals and clinical teams to deliver high quality, clinically effective patient care through assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation. Along the way, you'll build strong relationships with a wide range of healthcare professionals and patients.

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.