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Job summary

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Patient Support Worker
Grade
3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
321-MRC-6199216-B3-1
Employer
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Community
Town
Oxford / Banbury
Salary
£22,816 - £24,336 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/07/2024 23:59

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Patient Support Worker

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Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

 

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

 

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

 

Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values


 

Job overview

An exciting opportunity to join the Home Hospice Care Team as a Patient Support Worker has arisen. The postholder will provide care to people who are either likely to die within the next 2 weeks and are at home or require short term crisis support at home. 

 

*This position does not offer sponsorship*

Main duties of the job

The Home Hospice Care Team (HHCT) is looking for Patient Support Workers to join our community based team.

The Home Hospice Care Team sits within the wider Oxfordshire Rapid Intervention for Palliative and End of Life Care project, as a separate team. The Home Hospice Care Team primarily provides care to people who are likely to die within the next 2 weeks and are at home. The team is also required to provide short term support to people who are in crisis.

The team operates 7 days a week from 7am-10pm and our staff work a mixture of early (7am-1.30pm) and late (3.30pm-10pm) shifts, including every other weekend. All staff have a set 4 week rota.

The team covers the whole of Oxfordshire, so it is essential that the postholder has a full UK driving licence and a reliable car available for work.

The Home Hospice Care Team has the following two bases, Unipart Business House and Horton General Hospital. You will be assigned to the base closest to where you live, for mileage purposes but will be required to cover the whole of Oxfordshire.

If this is the job for you, please apply online now.

If you are shortlisted for this post, you will be required to complete a pre-interview assessment and will only be invited to interview, if you score over 70%.

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here  www.ouh.nhs.uk

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for further information on the main duties and responsibilities for this post. 

 

Person specification

Training & Qualification

Essential criteria
  • Good General Education
Desirable criteria
  • NVQ Level 2 or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Working with people
Desirable criteria
  • Previous work in healthcare setting

Other

Essential criteria
  • Full EU driving license
  • Car user with a car for work

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Ability to deliver hands on clinical care within a patient’s home and hospital environment
  • Ability to follow prescribed care plans including supervising medication
  • Ability to collect and record accurate statistical information
  • To be computer literate
  • Ability to accurately record patient information and verbally report changes in condition in a concise and appropriate manner
  • Ability to adapt approach and be sensitive to, culture and diversity when working within a patient’s home
Desirable criteria
  • Able to develop and build on knowledge and experience
  • Demonstrate problem solving approach

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Willingness to work flexibly in shift pattern (including alternate weekends)
  • Excellent communication and interactive skills
  • Good personal organisational and time management skills
  • Commitment to learning new skills/sharing skills with others
  • Ability to show initiative
  • Proactive approach

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jo Jones
Job title
Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01865572917
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