What working in the Community can offer:
- Every day is different
- Varied medical conditions
- Working as an autonomous practitioner
- Manage your own diary and caseload
- Seeing and treating patients in their own home – picking up on their meaningful occupations
- Multi-disciplinary working
- Specialist services eg. long covid, respiratory, neuro, health and wellbeing, mental health
- Potential rotational posts
What do staff like about working in DCHS:
- There is always someone to ask if you need any help
- Everyone is approachable, friendly and supportive
- Staff are more than happy to help with joint visits if needed
- We can link into specialist services i.e. respiratory, neuro, moving and handling team and safeguarding team
- Good training opportunities i.e. NCORE
- Flexible working opportunities
- Wellbeing support.
For further information regarding opportunities and training please contact dchst.temporarystaffing@nhs.net
How we support newly qualified staff:
- Trust induction
- Preceptorship and competencies
- In-house induction – shadowing the team, getting used to System One, learning about all the roles with the service
- Regular supervision/caseload management
- CPD opportunities
- Buddy person
- Band 5 monthly meetings – protected time
- Group chats – Microsoft Teams/Whatsapp
- In-service training.
