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Do you want to help deliver care to people in their own homes in the Inner London Boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster - with an opportunity to work with a supportive skilled team and develop yourself to provide admission avoidance care?

The Community Independence Service (CIS) Home First team works with acute hospitals to facilitate supported discharge for medically stable patients back into the community. Providing physiotherapy, occupational therapy and short-term care support.

We are looking for motivated and caring Health Care Support Workers to join our team to provide short term care to patients in the community following their discharge from home.

Community experience is not essential but applicants will need to demonstrate the Trust core Values and that they understand the issues involved in working in people’s own homes, working alone and be able to work outside of normal working hours, weekends, public holidays and face to face visits will be essential.

As a CIS Healthcare Support Worker, you'll work under the guidance of one of our experienced therapists professional to provide care to a patient as per an agreed care plan. This could include helping patients:

• wash and dress
• with personal care (including showering and toileting)
• serve and help with meal prep
• help people to move around and safely transfer
• make patients feel comfortable and settled following their hospital discharge
• take patients vital signs including: temperatures, pulse, respirations and weight
• help provide and review basic therapy equipment and mobility aids.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings

Here at Central and North West London NHS Trust we provide an extensive range of specialist health services including Physical Health, Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Eating Disorders, Addictions, Sexual Health and Health and Justice across London, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. Our services are mainly provided in the community, hospitals, schools and prisons.

We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

What we offer

• 27 days’ leave (rising to 29 after 5 and to 33 after 10 years’ service)
• Enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Excellent progression through various career pathway opportunities
• Regular ongoing supervision and appraisals with optional coaching available
• Support towards the Continuous Professional Certificate
• Support to complete the Care Certificate
• Generous NHS pension
• Great maternity, paternity and adoption support
• Childcare vouchers
• Access to meaningful discounts and benefits such as cycle and travelcard loans, salary deduction schemes enabling you to buy a car and hundreds of household items whilst spreading the cost over 12 months.

For a full description of the role and its duties and responsibilities, please refer to the Job description and personal Specification listed below.