Healthcare Assistant Immunisation Bromley Bexley Lambeth & Southwark

Community healthcare is unlike any other part of the NHS. It’s personalised care that helps people to retain their independence. It’s the NHS at its best and the difference you make is truly tangible.

Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job. Our preceptorship programme is second to none hence the award and logo. It’s simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services. In 2018, we were named ‘Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction’ by the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards. In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.

We are the top community trust in the country on the theme Quality of care for the third year. We had the highest percentage of staff who felt they are able to deliver the care they aspire to and are satisfied with the quality of care they give to patients or service users.

Job overview

Do you have a Level 4 Exercise on referral/PSI Qualification with an interest in promoting health and well-being, to reduce the risk of reconditioning of residents in care homes in the borough of Richmond? If the answer is yes, then we have the ideal post for you.

The Care Home Support Team are enthusiastic committed healthcare professionals that have built excellent working relationships with the care homes in the Borough of Richmond. The team are proud of the service that they have developed and its expansion in improving proactive care for residents, hospital avoidance and for the support and training provided to care home staff.

The Care Home Support Team in Richmond have an exciting new opportunity for you to join our dynamic team as a wellbeing and exercise coach on a 12-month fixed term contract or as a secondment opportunity for a band 4 rehabilitation instructor. You will be travelling to care homes in the Borough of Richmond to provide and support residents exercise programmes, which can be group or 1:1. The post holder will develop and deliver exercise and activity opportunities within Richmond care homes with residents that are at risk of deconditioning. You will work in partnership with care home residents and staff under the direction of the care home support team registered health care professionals.

Main duties of the job

To develop the role, engage with care home residents and staff to promote their health and wellbeing through exercise activities.

To lead on the evaluation of the role.

To develop resources to support care home staff to continue working with residents to reduce the risks of deconditioning and social isolation.

To network across the local health and social care system linking with current schemes finding opportunities to work together to support the sustainability of the project aims and outcomes.

To work autonomously, organising your work, whilst keeping clinically related records.

Working for our organisation

About us as a team

The Care Home Support Team is part of the Richmond Adults Unplanned and Integrated Care service which aims to reduce unplanned hospital admissions of nursing, residential and LD disability/ MHresidents in LBRUT. The team works in collaboration with a network of health and social care professionals

The service operates 5 days a week, Mon – Fri 8am – 4pm

Working for our organisation

Community healthcare is unlike any other part of the NHS. It’s personalised care that helps people to retain their independence. It’s the NHS at its best and the difference you make is truly tangible. Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job. It’s simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services.

In 2018, we were named ‘Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction’ by the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards. In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.

We are the top community trust in the country on the theme Quality of care for the third year. We had the highest percentage of staff who felt they are able to deliver the care they aspire to and are satisfied with the quality of care they give to patients or service users.

Infection Control

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached the full Job Description and the Person Specification to support your application.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to GCSE Standard; A-C including English and Maths
• Practical knowledge acquired through training, short courses and /or experience to BTEC / City and Guilds / NVQ Level 3 in Sports and Exercise

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• L4 Exercise on referral/PSI Qualification

Qualifications

Desirable criteria

• Educated to degree level in exercise physiology, nutrition or similar health science or equivalent qualification or experience

Qualifications

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of performing measurement or assessment in health and fitness, e.g. personal training or medical environment.

Skills

Desirable criteria

• Ability to work with multimedia formats eg written, video or audio in order to support the development of guides

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• An understanding of the processes of rehabilitation and lifestyle change

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of making recommendations on the benefits and value of maintaining mobility and physical activity.
• Experience of developing and delivering individual and group interventions

Desirable criteria

• Experience of developing and delivering individual and group interventions with the elderly and frail population.
• Experience of the use of evidence-based practice in health/social care setting
• Experience of audit, research and understanding quality issues

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing, including use of activity and outcome data and the use of IT
• Able to demonstrate a commitment to the HRCH values (Care, Respect, Communication)
• Ability to interpret a range of data, assessing the relevant messages to then deliver to the customer, tailoring these based on individual requirements
• To work as an autonomous practitioner and have the ability to organise, problem solve and prioritise own work
• Able to work as a team member being flexible, reliable and committed
• Able to work appropriately on own initiative and to be able to undertake delegated tasks independently
• Ability to demonstrate empathy, sensitivity and tact
• Confident and self-motivated
• Ability to travel to multiple sites

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Sound knowledge of relevant social care and health legislation, relevant policies, clinical guidelines and the ability to apply these
• Knowledge of anatomy/physiology in relation to health and lifestyle
• Understanding of the value and benefit of activity to mental wellbeing

Desirable criteria

• Awareness of needs of service users with Mental Health conditions or learning disabilities
• Know when to escalate concerns for further advice & follow up in line with local processes

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The closing date given is a guide only. There may be occasions where we have to close a vacancy once a sufficient amount of applications have been received. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible.

Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly. If you are successful at the shortlisting stage we will contact you via TRAC email. Please continue to check your emails and also your TRAC account for correspondence. You must confirm your attendance to interview as soon as possible, failure to do so will result in your interview being cancelled. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume you have not been shortlisted.

Hounslow & Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust (HRCH) uses TRUSTID identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of key documents such as Passports, Driving Licenses etc. It is a condition of appointment that all prospective employees of HRCH have their original documents verified using this TRUSTID.

Please ensure you provide work email addresses for your referees where possible.

Hounslow & Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights and encourage applications from all sections of the community including users of mental health services.

Please note that this post is subject to a 3 month probationary period. If you currently hold a contract of employment with Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust, this will not apply.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.