Frailty Health Care Assistant

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Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilitiesAny personal information you provide will be treated in the strictest confidence and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2021.Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust (SHFT) is committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect. As an employee, you are accountable to ensure that you know to how to respond when you are concerned for the safety of a child, young person or adult at risk, applying the principles of the Family Approach to ensure evidence based analysis, risk management and appropriate action and escalation. SHFT require staff to work effectively together using the Family Approach to achieve better outcomes for adults, children and families. The Trust will support you in this duty by providing ongoing training, support and advice and have a Corporate Safeguarding Team who can be contacted for guidance and the provision of safeguarding supervision.Job Title:Band 3 Frailty Health Care AssistantSalary band:Band 3Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week (part-time considered).Location: Efford House/Lymington with the ability to work flexibly across other sites subject to service needs.Would you like to join our dynamic team based in the heart of the New Forest National Park?The Frailty Support Team within Southern Health is a unique model of care nationally. We support acutely unwell adults at home, who are experiencing a sudden decompensation in physical, psychological and/or social well being. Our primary aim is to provide high quality health care, in the home, giving our service users the choice to remain at home and recover more quickly.The Team is truly multi-professional; we currently have Consultant Practitioners, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Registered Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Ambulance Technicians, Paramedics, Health Care Assistants, Apprentice Nurses, GP’s and Administrators working across all the hubs. While we all work to our core strengths and abilities, we also help each other to develop new skills and acquire new knowledge that enables us to provide truly holistic, patient centred care.The team operates from four bases. Each base has an established group of staff to provide continuity to our patients.While the majority of working days will be based with your usual base, there is some requirement to work flexibly from time to time from our other three bases. These are located in Fordingbridge (satellite hub in Romsey), Eastleigh/Southern Parishes, and Totton. We provide a service to our patients 7 days a week between the hours of 08:00 and 18:00. Weekends are worked in rotation, approximately one in six.Successful applicants will receive a comprehensive induction into the team and the Trust. We have regular in-house training sessions and access to a wealth of internal training, external courses and conferences to continue to develop your clinical skills and knowledge base.The team has service improvement and development embedded at its core. As a team member you will be encouraged to help us shape and develop the services that we provide to our patients and their families.If you think this opportunity could be the right one for you, please get in touch! Informal visits are strongly encouraged and very welcome.For an informal discussion please contact Shelley Ripper on 07341787959 or by email atshelley.ripper@southernhealth.nhs.ukA DBS check is required by the Employer for this post. The Employer will undertake an initial check at the appropriate level on appointment. As a condition of employment you are required to register with the online DBS update service and maintain this registration throughout employment.COVID-19 vaccine remains the best way to protect ourselves, our families, our colleagues, and patients from the virus, we therefore encourage applicants to become fully vaccinated. We ask for vaccination status as part of pre employment checks although COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment.