Healthcare Assistant London
Job description
The Enhanced Care Home support Team is an unplaned care service team is looking for a knowledgeable, motivated Health Care Support (Rehab, multi therapy/nursing) to join our multidisciplinary team. Enhanced Care home support team work with other teams in the community with an aim to bring the best of hospital care to a patient’s home and therefore avoid unnecessary hospital attendances/admissions. Most of our referrals are from GPs, Rapid Response team, Accident and Emergency departments and other community teams. We provide the initial assessment at home, performing a holistic assessment of the patient and start treatment plan by discussing the patients with consultants in virtual ward rounds.
The team consists of consultant, specialist GP, Advance Care Practitioner, Specialist Nurses, physiotherapists and HCAs. Enhanced care home support team manages patients in Nursing and Care home for their acute needs with aim to stabilise their health and other needs holistically. This will help to reduce the hospital admissions
We are looking for a Health Care Support (Rehab, multi therapy/nursing) who have a passion for patient care, who want to develop their skills and push themselves outside the normal boundaries of practice and who have a real drive to make sure their patient gets the best treatment possible. Excellent communication skills are essential.
As a Band 4 Health Care Support (Rehab, multi therapy/nursing) you will:
- Attend patients alone for follow up visits unless a joint visit is needed for the initial assessment with a senior clinician.
- Develop your skills into a more well-rounded holistic approach to patient care.
- Take on extended roles such as venepuncture, learn and use skills to identify red flags for Heart failure, seriously ill patietns with support
- Gain experience in generic, orthopaedic, musculoskeletal, respiratory, neurological rehabilitation and falls prevention.
- Gain experience in day to day management of own caseload and also present your cases at the virtual ward round
- Attend in-service training and have Continued Professional Development opportunities
The Support Worker is expected to:
- Assessment and planning of delegated care
- Monitoring of long-term conditions and well-being of service users including escalation of interventions when necessary
- Assist with the implementation and monitoring of clinical care and monitor outcomes
- Undertake onward referrals to appropriate services and community-based care support
- Enter data into clinical systems (patient records) as per Trust guidance and policies
- To ensure that written and electronic records and data are maintained, submitted at regular intervals and adhere to Trust and service standards
- To ensure full multi-disciplinary documentation is completed for multi-disciplinary caseload
- To independently complete basic Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and nursing assessments and Multi-disciplinary Falls Assessments with clients, incorporating analytical, investigative, and physical skills.
- To independently carry out basic assessments of mobility and transfers and prescribe appropriate equipment and educate carers and patients in the safe and appropriate use of this equipment, maintenance and fitting of equipment
- To assist in completing risk assessment of the environment and safety within the home under the guidance of senior team members following local and Trust policies, incorporating analytical, investigative, and physical skills.
- To attend team meetings, case conferences etc as directed by the Occupational Therapist /Physiotherapist/ to feed back on client’s progress.
- To identify and report in line with procedure vulnerable adults who are at risk of abuse.
- To assist the Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist /Nurse in the assessment of the care home environment liaising appropriately with relatives, carers and other professionals.
- To safely manage clients with poor mobility or are wheelchair users within the care home environment.
- To use judgement, knowledge and skills to assess client’s response to interventions and to modify these were appropriate.
