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Job overview

You can help people in your community and start a great new career by becoming a Support Worker for the NHS and Kent County Council Home First Team.

These are new roles working across health and social care to provide support for people leaving hospital to help them return home safely and continue their recovery in their own surroundings.

You’ll help people to regain their confidence by helping with personal care, eating and drinking and staying as active as they can. You’ll have the full support of a large team of health and social care professionals at all times and your best reward will be the smiles on the faces of the people you help to get home, where they belong.

You don’t need any formal qualifications, we’ll give you all the training you need to provide a truly valuable service to people in your community.  So, when someone in hospital says “I just want to go home”, you’ll be there to help them do just that.

This role requires the post holder to travel to sites across a wide geographical area.  In your application please outline how you intend to meet these travel requirements

Main duties of the job

'Home First' An approach whereby supporting people to be discharged home is the default discharge pathway, with alternative pathways for people who cannot go straight home. This principle is a key part of the discharge to assess model.  The Home First Team service in Thanet, East Kent is a Kent Community Health Foundation Trust (KCHFT) and Kent County Council (KCC) adult social care partnership. The team provides short-term, personal care and rehabilitation to support patients to return home following a hospital admission and facilitate early supported discharge from hospital through access to health and care needs assessment at home.

We are looking for staff who:

• Believe in providing personalised support.
• Can work independently and flexibly Respect privacy and dignity and who want to expand their knowledge in both a Health and Social Care setting
• No experience in the Health and Social Care sector is required, however the ability to work flexibly and a passion to make a difference is a must.

Additional Working Pattern: 7 day working pattern required

Working for our organisation

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values Compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

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