Senior Healthcare Support Worker

We have exciting opportunities for an enthusiastic individual to work within our established inpatient team. They will support both nursing and therapy teams to facilitate rehabilitation in an inpatient environment.

Our aim is to promote recovery and well-being, whilst empowering patients to self-manage and maximise their independence using meaningful activity. We take a very holistic approach to rehabilitation working on the ethos that all patient interactions have the potential to be a rehabilitation opportunity., You will be working within a team consisting of band 7 ward manager, band 6 sister/charges nurse, band 5 registered nurse and band 3 healthcare support workers who are all trained in a range of skills. Your role will be very physical, providing hands on, patient facing care. You will work alongside both nursing and therapy teams, delivering care so that they can support and respond to the patients needs. This includes all aspects of activities of daily living, with an ethos of rehabilitation to support patients to gain as much independence as possible.

ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders., We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.

At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.

The Unit presently comprises of 20 intermediate care beds delivering rehabilitation, and 6 specialist palliative care beds which are a mixture of bays and single rooms. For our intermediate care patients our aims are to reduce acute hospital admission and facilitate early discharge by utilising the skills of the multidisciplinary team of nurses and therapists. For our specialist palliative care beds our aims are to support patients with pain management and some for their end of life care needs.