Health and Therapy Assistant

  • Worthing
  • Sussex Community Nhs Foundation Trust

It's an exciting time for our Urgent Community Response (UCR) Service We are recruiting to our teams who will work with patients in their homes across the West Sussex communities to avoid hospital admissions and support those being discharged home.

We are looking for Health and Therapy Assistants to join us, so if you're an enthusiastic and motivated individual looking be part of a team providing excellent urgent community care, we'd love to hear from you.

This is an amazing opportunity to become a member of the team as a Health and Therapy Assistant working together to help patients stay in their homes, making sure they avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting them through the first few critical days after they leave hospital. The focus of this role is providing personal, health and therapy care for patients across the area with acute and diverse needs.

We are a multidisciplinary team working flexibly to provide a seven-day service, 365 days a year, between 8am and 8pm. We deliver:

  • A rapid response to people in the community who are experiencing acute episodes of ill-health.
  • A supported discharge service to facilitate timely hospital discharges.
  • Acute reablement for up to 10 days, supporting people to achieve functional goals and work towards independence with activities of daily living.