Bridging Care Assistant

BAND 3 Bridging care asssitant Are you looking for a fresh challenge, are you committed to the delivery of high quality patient care and keen to be part of a team where your ideas and opinions are valued then look no further. NELFT are seeking enthusiastic and highly motivated carers to work with Discharge hub, who should deliver a high standard of patient care and pathway managemnt to reduce delayed transfers of care acute trust and ensurte safe transfer of care into the community.

Key Responsibilities

• Using a reablement approach the post holder will facilitate service user independence and empowerment as far as possible with regard to existing medical conditions and disabilities and assist the service user to learn or regain skills with personal and domestic tasks as part of their therapeutic plan.
• To give holistic care to service users in their own home.
• To plan and organise Bridging Service daily rosters, coordinating the shift to ensure all visits are completed and staffs safety is maintained.
• To brief Team Lead/coordinators on all relevant developments for each service user.
• To participate in a duty rota to provide care for the service users to include unsociable hours and weekends.
• To assist in the administration of medication, if necessary, with suitable training.
• To have knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly manual handling.
• To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.

To maintain accurate records in the service users own home or elsewhere. Identify and

report any changes in service user care needs or changes in physical or emotional well-being to the Team Lead/coordinators.

Provide information to assist local resolution and complaints when required.

To be skilled in communication, establishing and maintaining good relationship with

service users, carers, members of the wider health and social care team or other agencies.

To maintain, update and develop personal, professional knowledge and skills achieving

high standards of service users care at all times. Reflect on practice regularly and plan personal development in order to achieve growth development. Access supervision from the Team Lead/coordinators and other staff to enhance own practice.

• To maintain confidentiality in all dealings with service users and their records.
• To support service users, relatives and other care imparting knowledge to promote positive health and safe use of available equipment.

Clinical Skills

• To provide service users and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence and quality of life.
• To work alone in the community, always with access to support and supervision.
• To maintain statistical returns as required by the Organisation, including entering clinical records onto the RIO system within the required time frame.

To attend and contribute to team meetings.

To report and document any incident or accident occurring to a service user or a member

of staff.

• To have an understanding and implementation of safe moving and handling, promoting health and safety for service users.

To be responsible for the care and safe keeping of equipment issued and to report any

defect or loss.

To carry out delegated tasks as necessary to support the work of the team as instructed

by the Team Leader and other team members.

Contribute to the effective and efficient use of resources by ensuring that supplies are

available, alerting senior staff when supplies are short and by making suggestion to

reduce waste.

• To maintain appropriate and up-to-date knowledge and skills, including mandatory training and to undertake continuing education in accordance with personal and service needs within the framework of a Personal Development Plan (PDP).
• To be aware of and report any safeguarding issues and complete any documentation to

support this.

Our Values 2025 - 2030 Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.

They Are

• We are kind.
• We are respectful.
• We work together with our communities.

These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by

the best people.

Starting with NELFT NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers, and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Goodmayes Hospital.

Probationary Period This post will be subject to a probationary period.

High Cost Area Supplement Outer London (B&D, Redbridge, Havering and Waltham Forest, Goodmayes)

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,870 to a maximum of £6,137 p.a. pro rata for part time).

Certificates of Sponsorship Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.

Use of AI We value applications that genuinely reflect each candidate’s own skills, experience and motivations. We therefore strongly discourage the use of AI-generated content in applications.

Applications should be written in your own words and accurately represent your knowledge, skills and experience.

We reserve the right to reject an application where we reasonably believe AI has been used to generate or materially contribute to its content.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the

criteria listed in the person specification. Please apply as soon as

possible as some posts close early to limit the number of

applications.

Name: Urvashi Khatri Job title: Clinical lead Contact Number: 03003001720 Email: [email protected]