Health Connector

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic person to boost our existing Extended Primary Care Team. Our services cover a wide geographical area including Fareham & Gosport, Portsmouth, Havant, Waterlooville and Petersfield and Bordon.

You will be joining a leading organisation that is both forward thinking and innovative. HIOW Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is committed to improving the quality of community health services across Hampshire and takes pride in rewarding the success of its staff. The applicant is afforded structured professional supervision and an annual appraisal.

This position is designed to contribute to avoiding hospital admission, facilitating early discharge from hospital and maintaining patients in their own homes. This post offers the opportunity to work closely with all members of the MDT both in primary, secondary care, Adult Services, as well as the community and voluntary sector.

The role is about coordinating care or support across organisations rather than referring on, following up with patients to see how they are getting on and lastly, it's about bringing medical and non-medical professions together under one banner to provide proactive holistic care.

This job involves a proportionate amount of time driving; you will need to be a car driver and have access to a car for work.

Main duties of the job

Health Connectors provide a service which helps members of the community access support to better self-manage their health and wellbeing and long-term health conditions.

The Health Connector will be a member of the Health Connectors service which works across the locality (Fareham, Gosport, SE Hants and Portsmouth). Health Connectors will work with individuals and groups utilising untapped community resources, support the facilitation of self- help groups and other innovative approaches to enable people to better manage their own health and wellbeing.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NVQ2 in Health Care or equivalent or willingness to commit to training
• Current Driving Licence

Desirable

• ECDL desirable
• NVQ3