Community Advanced Health Care Assistant in Scunthorpe inScunthorpe PUBLISHED WED 26 MAR 2025 Jump to job information section

Come and join an exciting service within North Lincolnshire who support patients when leaving hospital that require short term care and rehabilitation. The service will provide care support and re-enablement for patients and their families across seven days a week.The team will work in collaboration with the District Nurses, locality coordinators, discharge teams and will closely link with community therapy services to promote functional independence and rehabilitation for short term care and support needs.The advanced community health care will undertake administration of medication and must have appropriate training to be able to do so. Training will be provided in line with local policy where this is not achieved at application stage.

Please note that evidence of the NVQ qualification will be required on the day of the interview.

The role will involve assisting with patient's personal care and support needs up to 4 visits a day over 7-days a week.The role will involve caring for patients who have recently been discharged from hospital and are returning home with a change in care and support needs. With compassion, the successful applicant will be expected to nurture independence where ever possible to promote improved quality of life.The successful applicant will care for the individual physically with respect and promote dignity throughout. The successful applicant will respect the individual's wishes and secure consent for their activities. The successful applicant must be motivated to provide a high standard of care, adaptable to the individual and family's needs, and be resourceful when needed.

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As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://jobsincare.com/job/jbnsHGNK

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Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.