Clinical Support worker - Higher level - Community Frailty | East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Clinical Support worker - Higher level - Community Frailty Practitioner Service
The ESHT community Frailty Practitioner Service is looking to recruit a Clinical support worker to provide support to the Frailty Practitioner service across Eastbourne, Hailsham, Seaford, Hastings and Rother areas.
The Frailty Practitioner service works with older adults in the community living with long-term conditions and frailty combined with admissions to hospital. The aim of the service is to optimise clients’ health & medical treatment whilst providing them with the opportunity for advance care planning.
You will be motivated & organised, with the ability to work alone and as part of a closely integrated team. You will have strong communication & teamworking skills, a knowledge of the care of older adults and a willingness to learn about Frailty.
You will work alongside Clinical Support Workers and Frailty Practitioners (Nurses and Physiotherapists) to assist with clinical assessment and to measure & record clinical information. You will provide frail patients with health education, health monitoring and support.You will also be required to take part in team development initiatives.
The successful candidate will work across H&R & EHS community locations. The office base is in Eastbourne/Hastings. You must have use of your own car to travel independently whilst at work and to carry small items of clinical equipment as required.
We are proud to provide ‘Outstanding’ care and be a great place to work
We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by 7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people’s own homes.
In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as ‘Good’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated ‘Outstanding’. Eastbourne DGH rated ‘Good’.
In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious ‘Building for our Future’ programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.
Please refer to the job description attached.
If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.
This advert closes on Thursday 31 Oct 2024