This short-term service focuses on keeping patients safe at home, avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions, and aiding early discharges from secondary care. The role also involves managing caseloads that include patients requiring insulin administration and other specialized care. The position offers regular supervision and professional development, emphasizing the importance of delivering quality end-of-life care and supporting patients with long-term conditions and rehabilitation needs.
Exciting opportunity - Come and join us.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to join the expanding Urgent Community Response Team. We are looking for Healthcare Assistants who enjoy the diversity and variety of caring for patients in crises within their own home, as well as supporting people to have the best possible quality end of life care.
This role involves providing personal care, meal preparation and medication support, wound care, prompting prescribed exercise programmes, providing prescribed equipment and completing night-sits. Good communication and collaboration as part of the Urgent Community Response nursing and therapy team is essential. You will have regular supervision and professional development opportunities.
Urgent Community Response is a short term service, we make people safe and refer them on to other appropriate services as needed. Our focus is primarily admission avoidance to secondary care, keeping people safe in their own homes, including people at the end of their life, and also supporting discharges from secondary care or in-patient units.
Alongside these short term patients we also hold a caseload of insulins and therefore complete insulins, wound care and bloods alongside these patients.
About us
As part of the Urgent Community Response Team, you will be required: To contribute to the delivery of care pathways for patients with long termconditions, palliative care and rehabilitation needs for example, to achievequality of life and independence where possible. To work within the Urgent Community Response Team to prevent unnecessaryadmission to hospital To work within the Urgent Community Response Team to support earlydischarge from hospital To work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutory agenciesto provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.
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