Job summary

As a Healthcare Support Worker, you will be responsible for maintaining the safety and wellbeing of our patients, deliver personal care whilst promoting privacy and dignity and support patients with their nutritional, skin, continence and mobility care. We need our HCSWs to be flexible, working a variety of shifts. Our rosters are provided 6 weeks in advance.

Lower Brambles and Fanshawe Ward are situated in the Royal South Hants Hospital. They offer level 3 rehabilitation services to patients 18 years upwards to help regain their independence and rehab potential. Admissions are either 'Transfer of care' which are patients transferred from acute inpatient wards, or 'Step Up' via community teams/Acute Medical Unit/ Emergency Department to prevent acute admissions.

The post comes at an exciting time for rehabilitation within Southampton, South-West Hampshire and nationally and in September 2024 the ward will relocate to the Western Community Hospital within our new specialist rehabilitation unit - South of England Rehab Centre. We also operate a Level 2b Neurological Rehabilitation unit and a Neuropsychiatric unit which provide a range of specialist rehabilitation.

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation guiding and inspiring all our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

Main duties of the job

*Actively promote recovery-focussed care with patients, in conjunction with other health professionals, including achievement of set goals.

*Support patients with their rehabilitation and recovery, respecting them as individuals, supporting them and understanding their right to express their needs.

*Be the main provider of personal care for patients where required.

*Facilitate and lead patient-focus groups and activities.

*Accurately assess, describe and record observations on progress or change in both patients' mental and physical state using appropriate assessment tools, escalating any concerns as appropriate.

*Undertake clinical and environmental risk assessments and document key risk areas, seeking guidance from more senior staff when dealing with cases indicating a high level of risk.

*To raise incidents appropriately via the reporting system in an accurate, objective and concise manner.

*Provide information on improving health and wellbeing and signposting to other agencies as appropriate.

*To undertake escort duties to other hospitals or care settings as required.

*To ensure timely and accurate recording of patient information on patient systems.

About us

We have been working with other local NHS Trusts to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust to be formed by the end of 2024.

Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different communities.

The new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on the day the trust is formed. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.