Rapid Response Support Worker inSheerness inSheerness PUBLISHED 2 DEC 2023

As a Rapid Response Support Worker, youll be part of our valued team based at Sheppey Community Hospital

You will feel valued as a Rapid Response Support Work within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Annual salary of 23,100.00 with access to our group pension
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least 100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Working within our
Community Rapid Response Team
, you will support and assist team members toprovide rehabilitationto people in their own homesfor a widerange ofconditions, including reduced mobility and reduced ability to manage activities of daily living.Our work is crucial to the community as we aim to prevent unnecessary hospital submission and support hospital discharges. In this role, you will care for patients by delivering our high service standards, sharing bestpractice, and actively helping to develop and improve the way we work.

As part of our Community Rapid Response Team we empower our staff to work as autonomous staff members, and as part of a multidisciplinary team, with the provision of ipads/ tablets to promote remote working and enable staff to be out in the community supporting patients within their own home.

The Rapid Response Team operate 7 days a week, including bank holidays, 8am until 8pm. There is the option to work short shifts or long days within the service.

• To actively work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to provide a high quality of nursing, occupational therapy and physiotherapy intervention to the patient.
• To actively participate in patients individual rehabilitation/programmes of care under the guidance of an appropriate professional.
• To also work with the MDT including GPs and colleagues in the local acute hospital in order to provide a rapid response short term intervention to persons who have been referred on the Discharge to Assess (D2A) and 2 hour rapid response pathway.
• To take responsibility for completion of basic assessment processes under the supervision of the relevant members of the MDT to undertake Trusted Assessor Training when it becomes available.
• To provide and promote a high standard of rehabilitation of patients.
• To work autonomously as well as part of a team
• To be able to use and take initiative to seek additional work to assist the team as a whole (e.g. team administration tasks, being the first point of contact for patients, families and other health professionals, assisting in the maintenance of service equipment).