Community Support Worker - Urgent Community Response

Urgent Community Response South (Stratford Upon Avon & Leamington Spa)

UCR is well established team of highly skilled clinicians working together to support urgent response visits (within a 2hour and same day timeframe) and prevent hospital admissions for patients in their own home.

The successful candidate will be involved in a number of clinical tasks such as ECGs, venepuncture, wound-care, taking patient observations, assisting with falls pick-ups and much more. The CSW will work very closely with the Urgent Response Nurses within the team and be delegated tasks. They will also be required to support the night time shifts with rapid response as/when required from 8pm - 8am.

We are looking for someone who is able to work on their own initiative, at a fast pace and have excellent communication and organisation skills.

If you feel you have the necessary skills and attributes to offer this role and would like a challenge we would love to hear from you

As a county we are proud of the services our community teams provide. They are developing ground breaking new services designed to help patients better manage their own conditions, stay out of hospital and use the latest systems and technology to provide the most efficient and effective health care possible.

Ideally you will have experience of working in a community setting however, if you don’t have this experience but really want to work in the community we still want to hear from you.

The Band 3 Clinical Support Worker will undertake high quality, caring and compassionate personal care and associated duties under the direction but not direct supervision of the registered staff and working as part of the multi-disciplinary team.

As a Band 3 Clinical Support Worker (CSW) you make a valuable and important contribution to the delivery of high quality healthcare, supporting the registered professional in the delivery of safe, effective, compassionate patient care. This job description is to be read in conjunction with the person specification for this particular job.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mandeep Dosanjh Job title: UCR Professional Lead Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07909 687194