Urgent Community Response Support Worker

Job summary

Duties will include support with and provision of personal care, clinical duties where delegated, monitoring the patient\'s condition and working with health and social care professionals to ensure that patients are safe and well at home. This role includes medication prompting and administration, facilitating adequate hydration and nutrition and supporting with goal progressions part of the patient\'s journey to rehabilitation/recovery. You will need great interpersonal and communication skills and be able to connect with individuals with varying levels of understanding.

You must have a full UK drivers\' licence with access to your own vehicle (with appropriate business insurance) as you will be travelling to patient\'s homes to care for them. Expenses incurred for work travel will be paid at 59p for the first 3,500 miles.

Please refer to the job description for further details of desirable attributes and essential, skills and qualifications.

Main duties of the job

For more detail about the main duties of this role, please see the job description section below. As a key member of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, you will be joining an exceptional team working together to help our patients to stay healthy, when they need it most.

Job responsibilities

Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford).

Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within peoples own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).

Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.

Its never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as youll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.