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Community Healthcare Assistant

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
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Location
Salary
£24,625 - £25,674 per annum
Profession
Healthcare support worker
Grade
Band 3
Deadline
30 May 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
16 May 2025

Job overview

This role is part of the community nursing team visiting housebound patients in their own home. Working within your competencies you will undertake nursing interventions for patients on the caseload that have  been allocated to you.

Working predominantly unsupervised you will organise your workload in a logical way to accommodate timed visits. You will follow a personalised care plan to deliver the prescribed care,  document your intervention within the clinical record, report back your findings and escalate any concerns to the team.

You will participate in daily handover and undertake additional tasks required for the patients seen that day. Within the team there are additional champion and link worker opportunities for you to  engage in that supports the wider team.

Main duties of the job

Band 3 Senior Health Care Workers, will work closely with all users of our services and their families, friends and carers who all play an invaluable contribution in how our users experience our services.  Band 3 Senior Health Care Workers, are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services provided within the community team across the  health economy by:

  • Keeping the people who using our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments escalating concerns to Registered Healthcare Professional
  • Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures within scope of assessed competence
  • Ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process.

The service is offered to all housebound adults, daily including bank holiday and weekends so the shift patterns cover 8am until 10pm although some flexibility can be considered.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application.  We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

Find out more about the community difference here.

Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.