Community Support Worker - Rapid Response

Job overview

We have an opportunity to come and work for the Rapid Response Team, covering the whole of Torbay and South Devon, assisting people to remain in their own homes.

We are looking for motivated member of staff to work as part of a friendly, hardworking & committed team, working across 7 days to provide short term care and support to people in the community. We focus on supporting and enabling patients to live independently at home and on maximising independence, following a period of acute ill health or hospitalisation.

If you can demonstrate your flexibility, community experience and like to be able to work autonomously, providing interventions for patients within their own homes then this could be the opening for you.

Main duties of the job

Duties involved will include:

• provision of personal care, clinical duties where delegated, monitoring the patient’s condition
• To enable and / or assist individuals to remain in the community, to be supported and maintained safely in their own homes and thereby enhance the quality of life.
• To carry out the personal tasks which are not the responsibility of a nurse but would normal expect to be undertaken by a member of the service user’s family.
• Collaboration with other support workers and professionals to provide care for the service user
• To provide good quality domiciliary support to the service user in their own home, promoting independence.
• Assess the risk and needs of service user’s in accordance with the care plan.
• The role is very varied as such you will need to liaise with other professionals to ensure the patients are supported in the most appropriate way and provide suggestions to improve support ongoing

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Assist and promote independent social and living skills including the provision of a range of tasks, for example: involving assistance with mobility, personal care, bathing, dressing/undressing; continence, nutrition, hydration and prompting, monitoring and administration of medication where required, in line with local policies
• Therapeutic moving & handling skills – often with the need for prolonged physical effort. Will include frequent use of wide range of moving & handling equipment
• To undertake specific clinical tasks as delegated once undertaken relevant training and deemed competent. These will include baseline observations and investigations, simple wound care and like for like dressings management. To be able to recognise deteriorating physical health, use clinical/physiological observations to assist in assessment and escalate using early warning score and SBAR as required
• To ensure that patients, relatives, carers and professionals are kept fully informed of progress following intervention. Due to the diverse and complex nature of the caseload, this requires the ability to communicate complex information to meet a range of levels in understanding, and to overcome such barriers as, e.g. hearing loss, cognitive impairment, dysphasia, pain, fear, social and cultural differences
• To contribute towards ensuring a safe working environment for self and others and report on situation of potential risk, working with local policies and procedure

Full vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification.

Ability to travel efficiently around the South Devon area is important in order to carry out your duties (e.g. Full driving licence and vehicle).

Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.