Learning Disability Liaison Support Worker | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,948 - £29,468 per annum incl HCAS (pro-rata) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW17 0QT |
| Company: | st georges nhs trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6206437/200-6206437-MA-AA-Z |
Summary
• Work with the LD Practitioners under delegated responsibility (once competent) to ensure parity of access to services by working with our staff to ensure reasonable adjustments are embedded.
• Meeting patients attending for outpatient or clinic appointments and supporting them to find the clinic, and any reasonable adjustments necessary.
• Supporting with attending the appointment if the patient/carer/family requests.
• Liaising with our patients, their families and carers to ensure that hospital passports are up to date.
• Accessing activities and engaging with patients for meaningful activity during their inpatient stay.
• Supporting with hospital navigation for our local population, i.e. students from local colleges may attend for familiarisation days.
• Identifying barriers to accessing care and escalating as needed.
• Inputting data and information as required, including writing contemporaneous and accurate notes.
• Supporting the team with roll out of LD specific training.
• With support and education, to see where a potential deprivation of liberty may be occurring and alert the clinical team to the potential need for assessment.
• Act as a role model to staff in terms of engagement, communication and problem solving when it relates to patients with LD and their families/carers.
The Learning Disability Liaison Team at St. George's Hospital are recruiting a Health Care Support Worker.
Are you passionate about supporting people with an LD to access healthcare, work to reduce inequality, optimise wellbeing and support our patients, their families/carers and our staff? We would love to hear from you.
Our team works to support our patients have as positive a hospital experience as possible and this role will focus on visiting our patients on the wards and supporting with outpatient visits. There won't be a standard day - you could be helping someone through a phlebotomy appointment, going for a walk around the grounds or supporting a patient to communicate their needs and wishes. You will have lots of support from our very experienced LD practitioners, and a really thorough induction.
With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London. Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London.
A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people. The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details relating to this post. This is not exhaustive.
This advert closes on Friday 26 Apr 2024
• Meeting patients attending for outpatient or clinic appointments and supporting them to find the clinic, and any reasonable adjustments necessary.
• Supporting with attending the appointment if the patient/carer/family requests.
• Liaising with our patients, their families and carers to ensure that hospital passports are up to date.
• Accessing activities and engaging with patients for meaningful activity during their inpatient stay.
• Supporting with hospital navigation for our local population, i.e. students from local colleges may attend for familiarisation days.
• Identifying barriers to accessing care and escalating as needed.
• Inputting data and information as required, including writing contemporaneous and accurate notes.
• Supporting the team with roll out of LD specific training.
• With support and education, to see where a potential deprivation of liberty may be occurring and alert the clinical team to the potential need for assessment.
• Act as a role model to staff in terms of engagement, communication and problem solving when it relates to patients with LD and their families/carers.
The Learning Disability Liaison Team at St. George's Hospital are recruiting a Health Care Support Worker.
Are you passionate about supporting people with an LD to access healthcare, work to reduce inequality, optimise wellbeing and support our patients, their families/carers and our staff? We would love to hear from you.
Our team works to support our patients have as positive a hospital experience as possible and this role will focus on visiting our patients on the wards and supporting with outpatient visits. There won't be a standard day - you could be helping someone through a phlebotomy appointment, going for a walk around the grounds or supporting a patient to communicate their needs and wishes. You will have lots of support from our very experienced LD practitioners, and a really thorough induction.
With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London. Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London.
A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people. The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details relating to this post. This is not exhaustive.
This advert closes on Friday 26 Apr 2024
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