Main area: Medical & Surgical
Grade: Band 2
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time, Part time, Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (rotation of working days, nights, and weekends. Part time also considered.)
Job ref: 362-A-24-6924187
Employer: Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Stepping Hill Hospital
Town: Stockport
Salary: £23,615 pro rata per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 01/03/2025
Health Care Assistant
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient-focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care, and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire, and across Greater Manchester.
Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' (see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Job overview
Are you ready for a new challenge? Want a career change? Well, this could be the opportunity that you have been waiting for!
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is looking for health care workers who have an attitude based on strong nursing values and an overall commitment to provide patients and their families with care that is first and foremost based on a culture of compassion, professionalism, and respect.
As a trust, we provide excellent training and development opportunities in a friendly and supportive environment.
There are opportunities in a variety of different clinical environments, all permanent both full-time and part-time, and will involve rotation on to days and nights.
The post holder will be expected to work within our dedicated multi-disciplinary team and be fully involved in an individual’s care from admission to discharge, assisting with patient hygiene and dressing, feeding, maintaining dignity and respect, keeping the environment clean and tidy, and keeping good documentation records on numerous topics including skin integrity & nutrition. In addition, our health care workers are expected to support the registered staff nurses in meeting the required targets both at local and national level.
Main duties of the job
As a Health Care Worker, you will be working under the direct supervision of a registered health care professional and assist the healthcare team with personal care delivery of a defined group of patients & a range of clinical duties/tasks, always ensuring that actions taken are undertaken by the individual following appropriate training and within their sphere of competence.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Work within the ward/department setting, providing high quality, caring, compassionate & personal care to patients & their families/carers.
Work under the direction of the Registered Healthcare Professionals & senior colleagues, both independently & as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
Under the direction of a Registered Health Care Professional ensure a high standard of service provision within ward/department, by practicing effective clinical and administrative preparation, effective communication and care delivery, prioritising workload appropriately & contributing to service improvements.
Participate in giving compassionate high quality personal care to patients prioritising appropriately & developing competencies that safeguard practice.
Act always in a manner which illustrates respect for privacy, dignity, equality, diversity & confidentiality.
Always exhibit a professional attitude behaviour & demonstrate excellent customer care skills.
Contribute to effective team working by being fully involved, committed, & participating towards achieving own and others full potential.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Good general education/literacy & numeracy or willing to work towards obtaining
* Willing to undertake the National Care Certificate
* Holds National Care Certificate
* Working towards/or prepared to work towards obtaining an apprenticeship in Clinical Healthcare
Knowledge
* Awareness & understanding of the importance of confidentiality
* Demonstrate interest in healthcare services
* Knowledge of infection control & safeguarding processes
Experience
* Experience of working in a healthcare setting.
* Experience of caring for patients
Skills
* Good communication skills (written & verbal) adapting style according to audience
* Able to work in a team
* Able to carry out routine duties. Able to adapt & reprioritise according to patients' needs as necessary
* Able to use initiative
* Able to develop professional working relationships with patients/relatives/visitors/colleagues
* Basic computer skills & willingness/ability to develop further skills
* Committed to delivering high standards of patient care
* Professional outlook & positive attitude
* Able to meet the flexible needs of the role & duty roster
* Able to challenge unacceptable behaviour & escalate issues/concerns both timely & appropriately
Work related circumstances
* Occupational Health Clearance
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
If successful, this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary.
In addition to this, it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.
Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
Benefits we offer to you:
* Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
* Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
* Cycle to work scheme
* Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
* Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
Application process
Applicants are encouraged to read the documents attached to this vacancy before applying, including the job description and person specification and the information for applicants which includes useful information to assist you in completing your application.
From time to time we may need to close a vacancy early when in receipt of a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this post and wish to be considered, we strongly advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.
Please note that all correspondence will be via your NHS Jobs account. Unfortunately, we are not able to acknowledge each application. If you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please consider that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. Please also note that Stockport NHS Foundation Trust are unable to refund interview expenses or re-location costs.
Contact Information:
Name: Rebecca Cunliffe
Job title: Workforce Matron
Email address: stockport.nursing@stockport.nhs.uk
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