GR - Healthcare Support Worker - Complex and Exceptional Needs Service

Adults with Complex and Exceptional Needs Service (ACENS)

Exciting opportunities are available to join ACENS, a Pan Lothian Service caring for patients who require 1:1 specialised care in their own homes.  We have one full-time Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker posts available, and we are looking for passionate, caring, motivated people to join our highly skilled nursing team, helping to impact positively on the lives of our patients and their families.

We have 1x 37 hour per week posts available. Please note that this post is predominantely night shift working.

Candidates are required to have an SVQ 3 or Equivalent in Healthcare to be eligible for this role.

The ACEN service is a highly specialised nurse led service which is unique within adult healthcare in Lothian. Providing care at home to patients and their families who have exceptional and complex health care needs along with diverse and wide-ranging psychosocial issues. The care needs of the patient group demand knowledge and skills set which is patient and speciality specific.

Training

ACENS are committed to career growth and personal development, providing all staff with the appropriate training to support each patient. We work closely with other services to ensure competence and confidence prior to any staff lone working, as well as facilitating ‘buddy’ shifts to give staff the opportunities to get to know the patient.

Training opportunities we offer include, but are not limited to:

As well as the above, patient-specific skills will be taught ‘in house’ and facilitated by a registered nurse.

We are looking for Healthcare Support Workers who

For more information please contact Team Manager Angela Lees : angela.lees@nhs.scot

Please see attached the spotlight for further information.

**Please note we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage**

A link to the NHS Lothian Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan can be found via the link below:

https://services.nhslothian.scot/nursingandmidwifery/strategic-plan-2023-2028/

If you are currently working within NHS Lothian in a substantive band 3 Healthcare Support Worker post, and wish to transfer to this position, an option that is available to you is the internal transfer process. Please speak to your Charge Nurse for more information: Internal recruitment application process for nursing vacancies (scot.nhs.uk)

Find out what our staff say about working in NHS Lothian at:

https://careers.nhslothian.scot/acute-specialist-nurses/who-we-are/