Healthcare Assistants

Essex Partnership University Trust (EPUT ) is currently recruiting Senior Healthcare Assistants to join their Community Care Coordination Service . This unique service supports patients living with frailty and long term conditions living at home. We provide comprehensive assessments exploring the health and social needs of patients and try to improve their quality as life as much as we can. Our aim is to support independence and dignity for patients and their support network. The service is provided across boroughs of Southend and Castlepoint and Rochford. The role is community based and requires you to be able to drive and have a full driving licence. As a part of our team will be expected to work autonomously, unsupervised and to manage own workload. You will undertake thorough reviews using assessment skills and tools to identify any health or social issues patient may have. Work with patient to identify smart goals and complete individualized care
plans to support patient to maintain their independence and safety in their own homes.

Main duties of the job
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The successful candidate will carry out reviews on patients who are living with frailty and long term conditions. The role includes ordering equipment, making referrals to enhance patient well-being, working alongside Care Coordinators, pharmacy and the community integrated support team. Candidates should be enthusiastic, motivated, willing to learn and be able to demonstrate good interpersonal skills when communicating with patients, family members, colleagues and other members of the multidisciplinary team. A good sense of humour is also a plus! The team aims to support patients to maintain their independence and safety, avoid unnecessary hospital admission or readmissions., + Effectively manage telephone and face-to-face enquiries from all staff groups, patients, relatives and carers providing information as required.
+ Direct and prioritise queries as appropriate to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of the service delivery.
+ Provide support for activities of daily living as and when required
+ To maintain efficient systems to ensure that documentation and information is effectively managed and filed with accuracy and sensitivity, maintaining confidentiality at all times
+ Ability to work on own initiative, unsupervised and to manage own workload.
+ To undertake through individual care plans, personal, practical and rehabilitative duties as set by the care coordinator including assist patients with rehabilitation programmes including but not restricted to personal hygiene, shopping and meal .
+ To support patients with their inhaler technique, guiding and teaching where necessary.
+ The Senior Health Care Assistant will work without supervision, Assess and review patients, support and co-create a goal based, personalised care plan.
+ To perform welfare checks, guided by the personal support plan, work autonomously, using assessment skills to identify any problems the patient is struggling with or expresses, linking back to the care coordinator to create a new goal based personalised support plan for the patient.
+ To refer to other services and collaborate with the wider professional community
+ To assess and order equipment for the patient's home, such as grab rails.
+ Complete at home continence assessments refer on if necessary.
+ To complete Hospital to home assessment to assess wellbeing since attending hospital.
+ Preparation and support with daily routines, eating and drinking, skin care and assisting patients with their mobility as necessary.
+ To perform joint visits with other professionals as required.
+ To support other members of staff, teaching where necessary skills and knowledge which you may have and may be transferable to others in the team.
+ To observe, record and report any changes in individual conditions and circumstances and ensure that they are reported to the care coordinator immediately.
+ Assist in the risk assessment of the individual and of potential hazards in the patient's home and ensure that any hazards or risks identified are reported immediately.
+ To be aware of emergency procedures required for working in the community and how to act accordingly, ensuring that individual staff and patient safety are maintained.
+ Observe patient progress against planned goals and report changes in the patients' condition or care needs to a registered nurse in a timely manner e.g. on a routine or urgent basis depending on the priority.
+ Carry out safe moving and handling practice, on a daily basis for patients in accordance with planned programmes of care and Trust policies.
+ Undertake clinical observations e.g. temperature, blood pressure, urine testing and report result to care coordinator.
+ Develop and establish meaningful rapport with patients and their relatives/carers and demonstrate an awareness of individual patient needs.
+ Attend service meetings.
+ Ensure own approach to patient care respects the patients' privacy and dignity at all times, including a respect for patient choice.
+ Communicate effectively with other members of the Care Coordination team and multidisciplinary team, and maintain good working relationships with colleagues. Work positively with health and social care colleagues to maintain effectively working relationships.
+ Seek support and advice from more experienced colleagues when faced with matters outside of sphere of responsibility or knowledge.
Accurately and promptly, record patient care delivered and observations, ensuring compliance with Trust policy.
+ Attend training sessions and staff development activities as deemed necessary by the Team Leader; disseminating information where appropriate to other members of staff.
+ Be Open Compassionate Empowering
Important note: please ensure that as part of your application, you include professional references with business contact information covering your last three years of employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.
As a newly appointed employee, you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post; the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.
Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on or email [email protected] and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.
The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.
Important Notice: Recently the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 (the Regulations) which amended on 22 July 2021 and come into force on 11 November 2021 that anyone directly employed to work in a Care Home or who are required as part of their role to be deployed to a CQC registered care home are required to have had both their COVID vaccinations, unless they are exempt. This is therefore a requirement of this role and will form part of our pre-employment checks.
Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered 'suitable alternative employment' to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.

Our Trust cares for more than 100,000 patients at any one time across our community health, mental health and learning disability services across Essex and parts of Bedfordshire and Suffolk.
We want you to be part of our journey of transformation, where our patients and their families are at the heart of everything we do and to achieve our vision to be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care.
You'll be part of a Trust where you will be supported to be your authentic self and be the best you can be, where we will help you to grow, develop and thrive.
The Trust is recognised by the University of Essex and is a top provider of apprenticeships for people looking to be an assistant practitioner, senior health care support worker (CAP). Our trailblazing CAP apprenticeship won a national HSJ Award.
We are also recognised as a Veteran Aware Trust and holder of gold accreditation from the Ministry of Defence Employment Recognition Scheme. Our services are highlighted as an exemplar of good practice, producing the best care for more than 3.500 armed forces veterans in the past seven years.
We have been shortlisted and won national awards. We are an inclusive organisation and Level 3 Disability Confident Leader Trust.
We are constantly innovating and looking for new ways to deliver care, such as using technology to enhance patient care and working with partners to launch new services such as the Basildon Mental Health Urgent Care Department, virtual hospitals and falls response cars.
Join us and you'll do the best work of your life - and make a difference to other people's lives. What we do together, matters.

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
+ Season Ticket Loans
+ NHS discounts for staff
+ Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
+ Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
+ The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
+ Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
+ Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
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What is Staff Bank?
Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.