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Senior Healthcare Support Worker - Frailty Interface Team (FIT)


Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust


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Portsmouth, Hampshire | United Kingdom


Job description



Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Job Description



An exciting opportunity to join the Frailty Interface Team as a Band 3 Heath Care Support Worker within OPM has become available.

As part of a highly skilled and well-established team you will support the Older Persons Specialist Nurses with assessments of frail older patients attending the Emergency Department, Acute Medical Unit and Older Persons Medicine Same Day Emergency Care Unit on QAH site.

The role provides an opportunity to build skills and knowledge of frailty and functional assessments whilst gaining understanding of treatment and discharge planning.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential for this role and paramount when consulting with patients and relatives, as well as liaising with both internal and external healthcare providers.

Confidence in your ability to identify and escalate concerns is paramount to this position.

You will work in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams leading on the improvement, expansion and development of the frailty pathway.

We welcome full time and part time applicants.

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The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.


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