Castleberg Health Care Support Worker (Band 2)

Job overview

The post holder will primarily work as part of an established multidisciplinary team within the Community Hospital.  The post will involve assisting the professional multidisciplinary team to provide and deliver quality patient care.

Main duties of the job

We are looking to appoint a Band 2 Health Care Support Worker who is caring, enthusiastic and motivated to join our established integrated intermediate care team, primarily based at Castleberg Hospital in Giggleswick.

The Intermediate Care Teams have undergone recent developments and have expanded to include Castleberg Hospital. The 2016 CQC report described the Intermediate Care Teams as an outstanding example of community working.

The service at Castleberg provides bed-based intermediate care to support people who are in an acute but stable condition. The service also provides palliative care to people during their last days of life if they cannot be cared for safely in their own home.

The Intermediate Care Team’s includes Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists, Mental Health Nurses, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Staff Nurses and Community Support Workers. It is important to be able to work within a multidisciplinary team as well as independently. We utilise the Calderdale competency framework for skill sharing

Applicants must be prepared to work shifts covering 24/7 and have access to own transport, car driver and access to vehicle essential (Car leasing schemes available). The successful candidate may be required to rotate across Intermediate Care services (Collaborative Care Teams). This rotation is a great development opportunity and chance to develop skills, increase knowledge across a range of community setting.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification.