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Job overview

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, highly motivated Band 3 Community Support Worker to work within Torbay and South Devon Locality. 

You will be joining our specialist team with the aim to visit people living in their own homes, providing support that helps them live with more independence and choice. We provide immediate, short term service over a seven day period available to adults who have an acute physical health crisis or a sudden breakdown in care.

The service aims to support safe discharges from hospital, as well as preventing admission to hospital or to a residential or nursing home.

Duties involved will include provision of personal care, clinical duties where delegated, monitoring the patient’s condition

Unfortunately, in line with the Home Office standards, this post is not eligible for sponsorship.

Main duties of the job

Duties involved will include:

• provision of personal care, clinical duties where delegated, monitoring the patient’s condition
• To enable and / or assist individuals to remain in the community, to be supported and maintained safely in their own homes and thereby enhance the quality of life.
• To carry out the personal tasks which are not the responsibility of a nurse but would normal expect to be undertaken by a member of the service user’s family.
• Collaboration with other support workers and professionals to provide care for the service user
• To provide good quality domiciliary support to the service user in their own home, promoting independence.
• Assess the risk and needs of service user’s in accordance with the care plan.
• The role is very varied as such you will need to liaise with other professionals to ensure the patients are supported in the most appropriate way and provide suggestions to improve support ongoing

Working for our organisation

Why work with us - Our service provides rapid short term intervention up to a maximum of 7 days with the aim of preventing admission to hospital or to residential / nursing home. The services are provided by Support Workers who visit during the day from 7am till 10pm operating on a 7 day rota system, including evenings, weekends and Bank Holidays.

We work in an integrated way with allied health care professionals within the locality, and are a motivated and caring team to both patients and colleagues. I key element of our role is to support discharges from hospital to facilitate an earlier discharge.

Our people are caring, committed, inclusive and focussed on quality. We focus on solutions and people’s strengths. We encourage outside the box thinking and embrace innovation and change wherever it can drive improvement. Therefore, your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay.

Listed are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:

• NHS Pension Scheme
• Childcare at our day nursery
• Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full time workers) plus bank/public holidays
• Staff Discounts
• Career development and training opportunities
• Employee Support - Staff have access to a 24-hour helpline

If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to Team Torbay and South Devon. We would love to hear from you!