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Are you an experienced carpenter/handyperson who is looking for something a little different? Would you like to help vulnerable people stay safe at home? If so then come work with us in Intermediate Care, part of your local Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Based at Fleet Hospital and providing carpentry services to patients in their own homes across the local area, you will have access to the Trust's workshop at Frimley Park Hospital. You will have regular 1:1 meetings with your line manager and working office space at Fleet. 

You will be actively improving people's safety and helping them to stay at home safely. We will ensure you have the appropriate tools to do your work to a high standard and in return will support you with relevant professional training and qualifications as appropriate.

Main duties of the job

• To deliver carpentry services to patients within their own homes
• To drive a Trust vehicle (van) to and from patients’ homes and to have direct clinical contact with patients, relatives and carers
• To work autonomously, lone working in patients’ homes
• Improve patient safety in their own homes
• Excellent communication and escalation skills
• Occasional direct patient care
• Escalate changes in patients’ needs/equipment etc
• To maintain contemporaneous patient records
• Support the clinicians in their roles by undertaking delegated assessment, delivery and fitting of equipment, enabling patients to be as independent as possible
• To support the administrative functions associated with equipment and stock management
• Be flexible in approach at all times due to nature of rapidly changing priorities within the service
• Manage multiple demands on your time and prioritise accordingly
• To work 5 days a week as part of a rota covering our seven day service 8am-8pm

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. 

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.