Senior Healthcare Support WorkerNHS

Job summary

This post applies for City / South Oxfordshire ONLY

An exciting opportunity to join our Crisis Assessment and Response Team and Home Hospice Care Team as a Patient Support Worker has arisen. The post holder will provide care to patients who are in a crisis or required end of life care in their own homes.

Main duties of the job

The Crisis Assessment and Response team (CARe) and Home Hospice Care Team is looking for Healthcare Support Workers to join our community based team.

The CARe / Home Hospice team supports individuals in their own home, or usual place of residence with the overall goal of preventing hospital admissions and supports individuals who are in crisis or require end of life care.

The Crisis Assessment and Response team and Home Hospice Care Team, works alongside Oxford Health as part of the Urgent Community Response pathway and responds to urgent two hour referrals.

The team operates 7 days a week from 7am-10pm and our staff work a mixture of early (7am-3pm) and late (2pm-10pm) shifts, including every other weekend. All staff have a set 4 week rota. Full time (37.5hr)

As the position is community based it is essential that the post holder holds a full UK driving licence.

This post does NOT offer sponsorship.

Job description

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for all details on the Healthcare Support Worker role within the Crisis Assessment Response and Home Hospice Care Team.

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

In 2023NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment. If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.