This is an exciting opportunity to join the Urgent Care Response Team in Torbay. You will be working within a close multi-disciplinary team helping with admission avoidance and early supported discharges. This work is fast paced, variable, and extremely rewarding.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an established support worker to commence a developmental role and be supported in completing the foundation degree to become a qualified Assistant Practitioner.
You will be joining a truly multi-disciplinary team which aims to prevent hospital admissions, facilitate safe and effective discharges home, and support patients in their own homes. Our Health and Social Care team is an integrated professional team including Social Care, Community Occupational Therapy, Community Physiotherapy, Urgent Care Response, Intermediate Care, Community Nursing, Pharmacy, Dietetics, Support Workers, and Paramedics. We also work closely with other teams such as the Frailty Virtual Ward. The team is proactive with a forward-thinking attitude, promoting a positive and 'can do' approach. The successful candidate will be dynamic and play a key role in managing patients to remain in their own homes.
The UCR and Intermediate Care Teams are based at Kings Ash House in Paignton and Union House in Torquay. This role will be predominantly based in Paignton but may require support for the wider team in the TQY locality and at our Intermediate Care rehab unit, Jack Sears, in Paignton. The multi-disciplinary community team adopts a hard-working, flexible, and patient-centered approach. The team is supportive, friendly, and adaptable to the service's ever-changing demands.
The working hours cover a 7-day service between 8 am and 8 pm.
Why work with us
We believe the best way to care for people is by focusing on what matters to them, putting them at the center of everything we do, and integrating services around them. Please see the link above for more information.
For further details or informal visits, contact:
* Name: Becky Smith
* Job Title: Baywide Deputy Community Services Manager
* Email: rebeccasmith16@nhs.net
* Telephone: 01803 219718
My working days are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.
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