Community Health Care Assistant inEllesmere Port inEllesmere Port PUBLISHED
SAT 4 JAN 2025
Opportunity to work as part of a friendly and supportive team dedicated to community health.
Involvement in providing compassionate, patient-centered care, particularly for palliative patients during their final days/weeks.
Experience of working in diverse environments, including patients' homes, enhancing interpersonal skills and adaptability.
Flexible working hours with a structured rota of three 9-hour shifts, allowing for a work-life balance.
Access to comprehensive training and induction programs through the 'Prepare to Care' initiative, ensuring a smooth transition into the role.
Contribution to an organisation recognized with an 'Outstanding' rating for Caring by the Care Quality Commission.
Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated and reliable Community Health Care Assistant to join their Community Health Support Team in Ellesmere Port. The role involves delivering quality care services to patients in their homes, with responsibilities including simple dressings, catheter care, personal care, and recording blood sugars, particularly for palliative patients. The position requires working alone during overnight shifts (27 hours per week) and travel across the Western Cheshire area is essential, necessitating access to transport.
Applicants should have experience in palliative care and a compassionate, person-centred approach to service delivery. The Trust, recognized for its outstanding caring practices, offers a supportive induction program and encourages applications from diverse backgrounds, including those with direct experience of their services. The role contributes to the continued development of essential community health services, aiming to enhance patients' well-being during their care journey.
Applicants should have experience in palliative care and a compassionate, person-centred approach to service delivery. The Trust, recognized for its outstanding caring practices, offers a supportive induction program and encourages applications from diverse backgrounds, including those with direct experience of their services. The role contributes to the continued development of essential community health services, aiming to enhance patients' well-being during their care journey.
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, motivated and reliable Community Health Care Support Worker, who is keen to deliver a range of quality care services to patients visited by the Community Health Support Team based at Civic Way, Ellesmere Port. The team visits patients and their carers of all the Integrated Community Care Teams, across Western Cheshire.
As part of a friendly team, you should have experience of working in patients' homes, the ability to carry out tasks such as simple dressings, catheter care, personal care, recording blood sugars and have experience of providing care for palliative patients. This post involves Lone working, providing overnight care to those in the final days/weeks of life to patients in their own homes.
Applicants should demonstrate their experience of palliative care and the qualities required to fulfil this requirement. This post requires travel across the Western Cheshire footprint, access to transport for work purposes is essential and should be demonstrated in your application.
The hours are 27 per week. Consisting of 3 x 9 hour shifts, worked on a rota basis between 22.00 – 07.00 including Bank holidays and weekends.
Recruitment is due to continued development of the service. If you would like to chat informally about the posts and our exciting service development please give me a ring. Sue McGuigan, Team Manager .
As part of a friendly team, you should have experience of working in patients' homes and the ability to carry out tasks such as simple dressings, catheter care, personal care, recording blood sugars and have experience of providing care for palliative patients. This post involves Lone working providing overnight care in patients homes. This post requires travel across the Western Cheshire footprint, access to transport for work purposes is essential.
CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care – including the provision of three GP surgeries.
Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.
We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you.
CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.
To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This programme welcomes you to CWP and provides you with information and training to support you in your role.
We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sue McGuigan Job title: Team Manager Email address: Telephone number:
If you consider yourself Neurodivergent and need help to complete your application form, please contact or telephone
As part of a friendly team, you should have experience of working in patients' homes, the ability to carry out tasks such as simple dressings, catheter care, personal care, recording blood sugars and have experience of providing care for palliative patients. This post involves Lone working, providing overnight care to those in the final days/weeks of life to patients in their own homes.
Applicants should demonstrate their experience of palliative care and the qualities required to fulfil this requirement. This post requires travel across the Western Cheshire footprint, access to transport for work purposes is essential and should be demonstrated in your application.
The hours are 27 per week. Consisting of 3 x 9 hour shifts, worked on a rota basis between 22.00 – 07.00 including Bank holidays and weekends.
Recruitment is due to continued development of the service. If you would like to chat informally about the posts and our exciting service development please give me a ring. Sue McGuigan, Team Manager .
As part of a friendly team, you should have experience of working in patients' homes and the ability to carry out tasks such as simple dressings, catheter care, personal care, recording blood sugars and have experience of providing care for palliative patients. This post involves Lone working providing overnight care in patients homes. This post requires travel across the Western Cheshire footprint, access to transport for work purposes is essential.
CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care – including the provision of three GP surgeries.
Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.
We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you.
CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.
To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This programme welcomes you to CWP and provides you with information and training to support you in your role.
We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sue McGuigan Job title: Team Manager Email address: Telephone number:
If you consider yourself Neurodivergent and need help to complete your application form, please contact or telephone
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