This is an exciting opportunity to join the Urgent Care Response Team in Torbay. You will be working within a close multi-disciplinary team helping with admission avoidance and early supported discharges. This work is fast paced, variable and extremely rewarding. This is a fantastic opportunity for an established support worker to commence in a developmental role and be supported in completing the foundation degree to become a qualified Assistant Practitioner. You will be joining a truly multi-disciplinary team which aims to prevent hospital admissions, facilitate safe and effective discharges home and support patients in their own homes. Our Health and Social care team is an integrated professional team which includes Social Care, Community Occupational Therapy, Community Physiotherapy, Urgent Care Response, Intermediate Care, Community Nursing, Pharmacy, Dietetics, Support Workers and Paramedics. We also link closely with other teams such as the Frailty Virtual ward. The team are proactive and have a forward-thinking core that promote a positive and a ‘can do’ attitude. The successful candidate will be dynamic and key in managing patients to remain in their own home. The UCR and Intermediate Care Teams are based at Kings Ash House in Paignton and Union House in Torquay. This role will be predominantly based in Paignton but may require the postholder to support the wider Team both in the TQY locality and at our Intermediate Care rehab Unit, Jack Sears in Paignton. The multi- disciplinary community team have a hard-working, flexible and patient centered approach. The team are a supportive and friendly, adapting to the ever-changing demands on the service. The working hours cover a 7 day service between the hours of 8am and 8pm. Why work with us We passionately believe that the best way to care for people is by focusing on what matters to them, putting them at the centre of everything we do and integrating services around them. Please see link above for more information. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Becky Smith Job title: Baywide Deputy Community Services Manager Email address: rebeccasmith16@nhs.net Telephone number: 01803 219718 My working days are Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri. Location : Paignton, England, United Kingdom