Working Part time: 36 hours per week
We are looking for kind, caring, and compassionate individuals to work with our existing team and help care for our elderly patients.
Main duties of the job
1. Be accountable for performing regular assessments on patient needs, to plan, implement and evaluate care delivery and be adaptable to changing health care requirements.
2. You will be responsible for establishing and maintaining effective communication with patients, relatives and carers to always ensure their involvement in the decisions about treatment, planning and the delivery of their care.
3. You will take responsibility for working collaboratively with your team, other professionals and agencies to always ensure the patient's needs are met, especially in relation to their ongoing health care needs, their transfer and their discharge planning.
4. Be accountable for ensuring your daily practice fulfils your professional requirements as outlined by the NMC code of conduct and guiding documents.
About us
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
* The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
* Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
* Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £27.50 (standard) or £55.50 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
Good luck with your application.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Willingness and ability to undertake an NVQ level 2 in Health Care.
* Prepared to complete within six months of commencement.
* Good level of general secondary education.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
* Numeric and Literacy Skills
* Basic IT skills
* An understanding of organisation of nursing care
* Basic understanding of NHS issues
Desirable
* Previous work / life experience requiring involvement with the public
Skills and Abilities
Essential
* Able to present factual information and refer questions to others where appropriate
* Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with patients/relatives and others of varying levels of understanding
* Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the health care setting
* Able to deal with any issues with tact and diplomacy
* Ability to undertake manual handling of patients
Employer details
Employer name
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Countess of Chester Hospital
Liverpool Road
Chester
CH2 1UL
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