Health Care Support Worker

Are you enthusiastic and committed to delivering high quality compassionate care to people in their own home , if so then a health care support worker role in community nursing is the ideal job for you.

We have vacancies in the north and south localities of Bradford

As a Health care support worker you will work as part of the planned care community nursing service delivering care to people living in their own home environment .

We will support you to develop skills that will enable you to carry out a variety of interventions, appropriately delegated by a clinician in the team. You will be given full training in wound care , continence care, diabetes management including insulin administration, you will also support patients who require support with enteral feeding regimes and medication administration . These are a few examples of the types of skills you will be developing with a comprehensive training package underpinning these skills

The successful candidate will have experience of working with patients ideally in the community setting and appropriate NVQ or equitant qualifications or experience.

As an agile worker you will need to be able to move around Bradford independently as you will be visiting patients in their own home .

We have great development opportunities for our Health care support workers supporting apprenticeship programmes to undertake pre registration training to be come a registered nurse or Nursing associate.

To work as part of the Adult Community Nursing Services over a 7day period.

Ensuring high quality health care is delivered to patients in their homes as an integrated part of the mainstream Integrated District Nursing service. To work in collaboration with the wider Primary Health Care team, whilst participating in the assessment of health needs and delivering of care to the practice population. The service is delivered over a seven day rota. with a shift range from 8- 9pm 7 days a week

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care- We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen- We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver- We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Please read the attached Job description and the person specification for more details about this role.