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Band 3 – Home First Health Care Support Workers – Community Services – East locality working primarily from Duns area
Location: Community Based
Department: AHP Services
Job Title: Home First Health Care Support Worker – Community Services
14.5 hours. 7 day working with a mix of daytime shift patterns from 8am until 8.30pm
Get in touch with Michelle Laing, Community Physiotherapy Team Lead, to find out more about this exciting and developing post.
We are looking for an energetic and innovative health care support worker to join our Home First service. If you are passionate about supporting people to live as well as they can do at home following their discharge from hospital and are motivated to help people avoid admission to hospital by helping them to be as independent as possible, then get in touch.
You will be part of a team of Health Care Support Workers, Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists and you will visit people in their own homes to help them with their daily tasks and carry out rehabilitation programmes from the physiotherapist and occupational therapist. The emphasis of this role is to help people to do as much as they can for themselves so that they can stay active and live as independently as possible.
The work will be varied and fast paced, you will work independently and usually visit people on your own. If you enjoy working with people to help them to recover from injury or illness and like working as part of a team, then this job may be for you!
The post holder will be based primarily in Duns as part of the East locality (Duns/Kelso) Borders and must be able to drive and access to a car.
Interviews dates to be confirmed.
Informal enquiries are welcomed. Please phone or email the Community Team Lead on michelle.laing2@borders.scot.nhs.uk or 07977020881
***PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early***
*Please note: As this is a part time post the salary shown will be pro rata*
NHS Scotland is reducing their full-time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay. This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff. This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours. However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period, for which you would be paid, until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Hiring Manager.
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.