Senior Community Support Worker

Job overview

Working Full time:  37.5 hours per week

We are looking for a Senior Community Support Worker to work within the Rapid Response Team, providing an early supported discharge service to patients from the Countess of Chester Hospital & Ellesmere Port Hospital.

The post involves assisting patients with their activities of daily living, providing resettlement, rehabilitation & care to patients in their own home, delivered in accordance with the patient’s Care Plan.

The post holder will support therapists and nurses with their patient caseload and have general administrative and housekeeping tasks as required to facilitate the smooth running of the service.

Main duties of the job

This person will also support the Band 3 Community Support Workers  to manage their caseload and have some basic line management responsibilities. They will need to use their organisational and clinical skills to allocate work and react to service demands.

This person will use their clinical knowledge and excellent communication skills to reduce care as indicated and to refer patients on to relevant community pathways.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs will be deducted from their salary over the first three months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.