Support Worker Supervisor

Role Overview & Responsibilities

The Community Response Team supports discharges from the acute hospitals, providing short-term and interim care.

Previous caring experience is ESSENTIAL.

Your base would be Babington Hospital, covering Amber Valley/Erewash.

You will need to be flexible and committed to caring and supporting people at home with care needs.

You will need to be able to travel between visits. Therefore, a full, UK driving license is essential.

Shifts follow a 7 day rota, including weekends and bank holidays.

You will be supported and receive training to help you develop.

Please contact us to find out more. We look forward to hearing from you!

• Be responsible for the day to day supervision of support workers.
• Delegate patient’s visits to ensure an effective support worker service is provided to patients in a timely and cost effective way.
• Be a role model to the support worker team and actively monitor and maintain clinical skills and professional manner.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential, as appropriate and under supervision.
• Work with qualified therapists and nurses in the assessment and treatment of patients with a variety of conditions and progress/modify intervention programmes within parameters set by the therapists and nurses.

Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.

We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people’s own homes and via virtual consultations.

During the pandemic response, we have led the implementation of public vaccination centres in collaboration with partners across health and social care.

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The post holder will organise and prioritise their own day to day work tasks and activities, and delegate tasks to junior colleagues.