Main area: Elderly Care Medicine
Grade: NHS AfC Band 2
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (various shifts available)
Job ref: 262-A-24-6497248
Employer: North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: West Cumberland Hospital
Town: Whitehaven
Salary: £23,615 pro rata per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/11/2024 23:59
Health Care Assistant Ward 4
NHS AfC Band 2
Job overview
Band 2 Health Care Assistant Ward 4 WCH. Up to 37.5 hours available per week, shifts include nights, weekends and bank holidays. Ward 4 is a 30 bedded acute care of the elderly ward. Patient safety is embedded in everything we do. Our aim is to provide an excellent patient experience from admission to discharge ensuring all physical and psychological needs are met.
Ward 4 cares for elderly patients with a range of needs, from acutely unwell patients to managing long term conditions, complex discharge planning to end of life care.
Main duties of the job
Main job is to assist the registered nurses (or other healthcare practitioners) in providing high quality patient care.
When trained and deemed competent, undertake clinical activities, using appropriate equipment.
Maintain patients’ privacy and dignity at all times and provide care in a compassionate and sensitive manner. Be an effective part of the multi-disciplinary team contributing to the departmental objectives.
Continue to develop and maintain competencies in nursing tasks to maintain high quality safe care.
Post holder will be expected to contribute to housekeeping and other ward/department duties as required, e.g., general tidiness, replenish stock and ensure clinical equipment is clean, working and stored correctly.
Contributes to the work of the department by working under direct or indirect supervision of registered practitioners or assistant practitioners.
Working for our organisation
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’:
* Being a clinically led organisation
* Quality and safety at the heart
* A positive patient experience every time
* A great place to work
* Managing our money well
As an organisation, we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria, we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust’s sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.
We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.
If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts.
Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.
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Disclosure and Barring Service:
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children; therefore, if the post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended) the successful candidate(s) will be subject to a criminal records check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction.
Person specification
Qualifications
* National Care Certificate or commitment to complete as part of induction process.
* NVQ 2 in care (willingness to complete within one year of start date) or equivalent experience
Experience
* Work in customer focused/caring environment
* Use of a computer.
Knowledge
* Ability to maintain and improve knowledge, skills and competence to ensure high standards of patient care.
* Ability to meet basic care needs of patients, washing, dressing, assistance with feeding, etc.
* Ability to carry out routine elements of assessment to enhance the patient/client journey, following an initial assessment by a registered practitioner.
* Nursing policies and procedures
Skills and Aptitudes
* Good communication and interpersonal skills.
* Ability to work as a member of a team.
* Ability to use initiative appropriately.
* Organisational skills.
* Ability to meet deadlines.
* Ability to demonstrate the compassionate values and behaviours needed for dignified care.
* Keyboard Skills.
* Venepuncture.
Personal Circumstances
* Ability to communicate with members of the public and health care providers.
* Presents self as courteous, respectful and helpful and understands importance of professional image.
* Ability to work effectively under direct supervision, as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
* Team focused.
* Understands responsibility of position.
* Understands the need for flexibility.
* Reassuring under pressure.
* Open/Reflective/Warm.
* Reliable, Adaptable and Dependable.
Other requirements
* Alignment to Trust Values and Core Behaviours.
* Evidence of understanding of Trust Business.
* Experience of working in the Trust previously.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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