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Age UK Lancashire

Location:
United Kingdom, Burnley or Blackburn

Category:
Health and Beauty

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

23690.00 GBP / Year

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Job Description:

Age UK Lancashire’s Living Well Support Service provides invaluable support to clients over the age of 18, helping them attain or regain independence after a hospital stay or prolonged illness. Our service is integral to supporting hospital discharges, preventing unnecessary hospital admissions, and may reduce the need for residential care.

Job Responsibility:

Take patients home directly from the hospital and settle them back at home, ensuring they have everything they need to remain at home
Provide continued support for up to 6 weeks, to help them retain or regain their independence
Use a solutions focused approach to ensure that people can access the help that they need when they need it, either from Age UK Lancashire or from other community-based support

Requirements:

Caring and empathetic attitude with a focus on helping people to maintain independence
Ability to provide a person-centred, flexible and responsive service
Experience of managing own workload, using decision making skills to manage and prioritise
Ability to work well within a team and use own initiative
Excellent communication skills with ability to build relationships with individuals, health care professionals and colleagues
Digital skills to manage time efficiently and effectively, including Microsoft Outlook and Excel, and use of iPad and smartphone devices
Ability to manage a busy workload, keep accurate records and conduct assessments
Able to undertake general physical activity in people’s homes (often over 2 floors) for example providing light domestic duties
Full driving Licence, with appropriate insurance cover, and willingness to transport patients in own car

What we offer:

Full training and comprehensive induction
A friendly and inclusive culture
25 days annual leave + bank holidays, increasing to 30 with length of service
Workplace pension scheme
Access to Employee Assistance Programme
Staff discount card for hundreds of High Street shops and online services
Blue Light card eligibility
Travel expenses will be paid for all journeys required for work, excluding travel from home to base
Hospital metered parking will also be paid for costs incurred carrying out your role
Bank Holidays paid at double time

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 05, 2025

Employment Type:

Parttime

Work Type:

On-site work

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