Job summary
- Main area
- TBC
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (seven day working)
- Job ref
- 846-6405957-CF
- Employer
- Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- TBC
- Town
- Ashford
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 04/08/2024
Employer heading
Care Assessor
NHS AfC: Band 4
Job overview
Are you ready to start a new career pathway working within a joint enterprise of Health and Social Care?
You could become part of this combined Service bringing the unique benefits of a wrap round recovery service from hospital discharge. The principle of the service ensuring that recovery involves working towards the person being as independent as possible through enablement.
These are newly developed posts working across Health and Social Care, supporting recovery and delivering enablement in all areas of daily life including personal care and supporting nutrition, whilst also monitoring the patient’s condition. Contributing to an overall plan of care, which includes the support of the multi-disciplinary teams from Health and Social Care
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 someone who:
- Believes in providing personalised support
- Can work independently and flexibly
- Respect privacy and dignity
- Looking to develop their skills
- Develop operational strengths
- Works to targets
- Good IT skills
- Ability to understand the business need and who want to expand their knowledge in both a Health and Social Care setting.
Knowledge of working within the Health or Social Care sector is required, with strong assessment skills to support and steer people through their recovery and then move on to be as independent as possible.
The operational hours of the service are 08:00 – 20:00 seven days a week (working on a shift basis).
Additional Working Pattern: seven day working
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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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.
Person specification
Qualifications:
Essential criteria
- Care Certificate
- Literacy and numeracy skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in Health or Social Care
- Demonstrates an interest in caring for the health and welfare of adults needing support in the community.
- Working with others
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understands and can apply key Health & Safety procedures relevant to the role
- Use of a wide range of domestic appliances
- Awareness and compliance with equality policies, procedures and legislation.
- Understands the role and remit of the unregistered worker
- Awareness of national policies and legislation, its relevance to care settings and its application across health and social care services.
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Sound communication and interpersonal skills (verbal and written)
- Ability to organise and prioritise own work
- Moderate IT skills.
- Ability to travel across a wide geographical area in a timely and flexible manner at various times of the day in accordance with the needs of the job.
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to work under pressure
Ability to manage
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage own time effectively.
- Ability to prioritise care delivery in a professional manner, considering health and social care policies and procedures
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Karen Thomas / Claire Ferneyhough
- Job title
- Team Manager / Professional Lead Dietetics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- [email protected]
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