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Generic Worker
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
28.5 hours per week (Service runs seven days a week between 8-6.)
Job ref
179-7866658-I
Employer
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Mildenhall INT
Town
Mildenhall
Salary
£25,760 - £27,476 per annum, pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/04/2026 23:59

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Generic Worker - Mildenhall INT

NHS AfC: Band 3

Job overview

Are you looking for a new challenge?  Do you want to broaden your knowledge and skills in a diverse and dynamic role?

If you are an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Generic Worker within the Mildenhall Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT). 

 The team is made up of nursing teams, a therapy team and a community matrons service.  Working in an integrated team to provide excellent care to people within the locality.  Working closely with colleagues across health and social care the teams provide clinical care to people within their own homes.

The INTs are a dynamic and exciting place to work with ongoing development and growth which offers the opportunity to develop new skills, learning and developing in a friendly and supported way within the teams.

If your excited about the idea of providing high levels of care and looking for a new challenge then we want to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

Following training and development as required you will be providing clinical care and support to people in their own homes in the community.

You will be visiting people in their own homes and delivering care in line with treatment plans in put in place by District Nurses within your team.

Some of your duties would include phlebotomy, wound care, administering insulin to stable diabetic patients and monitoring basic physical observations for good health.  Training and development can be provided around these clinical skills but previous experience within health or social care would be an advantage.

As well as the essential person specifications as on the job description, you will need to have good communication skills, initiative, and be friendly and flexible. 

 

Working for our organisation

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

 

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see Job Description attached.

To contribute to the delivery of quality, effective and safe health care to patients within their own homes, residential care homes, and in clinics, by supporting the team in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care under the delegation/supervision of registered practitioner

Person specification

Education and qualifications

Essential criteria
  • QCF care certificate or equivalent knowledge and experience or working towards an Apprenticeship
  • Experience of working with the general public
Desirable criteria
  • NVQ 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent
  • Experience of working within a care setting

Experience and knowledge

Essential criteria
  • • Able to communicate effectively, in writing and verbally, using the English language
  • • Keyboard skills and knowledge of SystmOne
  • • Able to provide high standards of care
  • • Able to report and escalate concerns to senior clinician

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria
  • • Tact & diplomacy
  • • Ability to use own initiative
  • • Good observational skills
  • • Able to contribute to team goals.
  • • Work flexibly to accommodate patient/service needs
  • • Demonstrate self-awareness and the ability to reflect on and change own behaviour.
  • • Manoeuvre patients using handling aids

Personal qualities

Essential criteria
  • • Welcomes feedback on their performance and able to reflect and change behaviour.
  • • Flexible approach to working hours and duties
  • • Able to make own travel arrangements to meet the needs of the services if required to

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardDisability confident employerArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a high number of applications.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Pippa Sharp
Job title
Health Manager Mildenhall INT
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07974854876
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