Hospital to Home Support (Newquay & St Austell)
Hospital to Home Support (Newquay & St Austell)
Are you looking for a rewarding job work across the Charitable and Voluntary Sector in supporting older people out of hospital and back into their home and local community? An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Hospital to Home team working in the St Austell and Newquay areas.
If you would like to discuss this role in more detail, please call Lucy Downing on 01326 316880. As an organisation, we encourage flexible working patterns and are open to negotiation and making reasonable adjustments. Please talk to us about the flexibility you need, and we will explore what’s possible for the role.
Reports to: Hospital and Home Service Development Lead
Place of Work: St Austell Hub, PL25 5AE and Govenek Hub, TR7 1JR, with the requirement to work at different locations and venues. Due to the nature of the work, travel is an essential part of the role therefore a driving license and access to a car is essential. Your car insurance must cover business use.
Salary: £15,784.22 per annum (£24,334 FTE)
Hours of Work: 24 hours per week, with possible weekend work. Working pattern to be agreed.
Duration: Fixed term until 31st March 2025
About the role:
In this role you will enhance the lives of older people by offering a high-quality service within their homes, hubs, and hospital. You will be responsible for the delivery of practical support and pro-active co-ordination in accordance with an individual’s wishes and circumstance. You will offer a user-focused service, ensuring good practice, promoting independence, confidentiality, and integrity at all times. You will also complete holistic assessments within community hospitals and a persons’ home and provide support to those who attend groups for social activities and support. This may include the Active Living Hubs.
About you:
You will have:
- Experience in practical support, including cleaning, shopping, food preparation and companionship.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to form positive and constructive working relationships with a wide range of people including:
- individual clients and their families,
- other staff and volunteer colleagues,
- community hospital and social care staff and
- other charitable organisations.
- Good IT skills with the ability to navigate databases and access client information via a safe and secure file sharing and transfer system.
- Be able to travel independently to clients’ homes, our Hubs and community hospitals.
- Be motivated to make a real difference in the quality of people’s lives.
- A friendly and caring nature with a commitment to understanding the needs of the people who use our services, and a willingness to learn; with an absolute commitment to reaching our standards in training.
This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS check with Adult Barred list check and undertaking necessary training.
Rewards and Benefits:
- 5.8 weeks of holiday (including Bank Holiday) for your first year
- Plus 3 extra days; 1 day for your birthday and 2 days to take December to January
- Your holiday entitlement increases 1-day pro-rata a year up to a maximum of +8 days pro-rata
- Healthy Workplace Group
- Cycle and Tech Scheme
- Health Benefits Scheme
- Blue Light Card Rewards
- Age UK discounts app
- Travel expenses to and from an agreed workplace
- A rewarding and purposeful experience - adding real value to people’s lives
About us:
We are the leading independent charity in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly working to improve the wellbeing of people in later life and striving to support them to live the life they want to live. Working together with people, local services, and communities, to better understand support needs and develop a coordinated approach that can transform lives, is key to our mission.
Our Active Living service offers support to people within their own homes or our Community Hubs. The service is diverse and covers aspects of practical and companionship support to our clients, home / domestic support; such as cleaning, shopping and gardening, along with much-needed activities or home administration; tailored to meet the individual needs of the clients. We pride ourselves in delivering a person-centred approach and a willingness to adapt to a person’s needs and wishes. Training will be given but your commitment to inspiring people to age well and live well and your values are paramount.
We believe in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging. We want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge group think.
We are especially interested in people whose experiences of life (on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBTQ+ or living with a disability) help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it.
We will give you the opportunity to make a difference to our future and the opportunity to be part of our close-knit and friendly organisation. If you have ideas, then we will listen and work with you to implement improvements. By joining us you can make a real difference to people in later life.
To apply:
Job Description - Hospital to Home Support (Newquay & St Austell)
CVs and cover letters are not required but can be submitted to support your application, if you wish. No agencies please. If you would like a paper application form, please provide us with your address.
Application Deadline: Monday 15th July, 1pm
To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Our organisation is positive about employing people with disabilities. We know there’s a wealth of talent among people who have a disability as well as those who have experience of mental or physical health problems. So, if you need any support with your application or if you require your application in a different format please just give us a call on 01872 266881.
If you choose to disclose a disability on your application form and you meet the essential criteria set out in the person specification, we commit to inviting you to an interview.