Job Summary
We are currently recruiting an experienced Band 3 Healthcare Assistant to be part of our team at Pershore Community Hospital, which has an inpatient ward with 26 beds. The candidate will work closely with the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to achieve specific rehabilitation goals. This will be a challenging and exciting opportunity and will enable the individual to develop new and existing skills.
Pershore Community Hospital plays a critical role in the delivery of local NHS services, providing more care and treatment closer to peoples homes. Emphasis is to reduce length of stay whilst ensuring excellent care, which is safe, effective, personalised and compassionate and to the standards you would expect for your family and friends.
Join our team, we pride ourselves in providing outstanding care to patients across Herefordshire and Worcestershire. We will provide you with resources to develop and progress a long-term career as well as flexibility, continual professional development as well as a wide range of wellbeing and support.
This is a part time role working 22.5 hours per week.
Please note the Trust will not provide sponsorship to work for this role; to apply you must have current right to work in the UK status.
Main duties of the job
The Main Duties Of a Healthcare Assistant Are
1. Competently perform the necessary aspects of care for patients.
2. Ensure effective delivery of care is provided to patients and that an acceptable standard is maintained.
3. Follow all policies and provide a safe and person-centred environment for patients.
4. Participate in personal and practice development activities to maintain standards of care.
5. Ensure that all clinical documentation is accurately collected, updated, stored and filed in accordance with local information governance and record keeping policy and guidance.
About Us
At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.
We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.
What we offer:
* 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service.
* Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours.
* Flexible and agile working opportunities.
* Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support.
* Wide range of supportive staff networks.
* Health and wellbeing opportunities.
Job Description
Job responsibilities
The post holder is part of a multidisciplinary team delivering care to patients. Support and supervision are provided by a Registered Nurse. You will be expected to carry out a range of patient care tasks and duties to enable the team to provide an effective and efficient service.
1. Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on day to day basis.
2. Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.
3. Use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide to patients.
4. Provide safe and effective practice to patients within the Community Hospital.
5. Practice as a member of the Community Hospital Nursing Team to support and work in partnership with the larger multi-disciplinary team to provide patient care within a defined ward/department.
6. Maintain confidentiality at all times.
7. Maintain accountability at all times.
8. Support all members of the team.
Person Specification
Additional Criteria Essential
* Punctuality.
* You understand that we will not provide sponsorship to work for this role.
Desirable
* Willingness to undertake further training.
Skills and Abilities Essential
* Ability to provide limited delegated clinical duties to patients e.g. patient observations.
* Ability to challenge poor behaviour.
* Role model good behaviour.
* Ability to communicate clearly in English in both verbal and written forms.
* Be able to take an active role to be a link person for specific tasks i.e. IPC and to carry out audits, meetings, feedback to the team as required.
* Ability to follow instructions and feedback to senior staff.
* Ability to work with minimal supervision.
* Able to provide supervision i.e. for HCA or T level students.
* Maintain confidentiality at all times.
Knowledge Essential
* Knowledge of care related procedures, clinical observations and relevant legislation.
* Basic IT skills.
* Can demonstrate an understanding of how to promote independence and facilitate learning in others.
Desirable
* Ability to demonstrate knowledge of MHA and MCA issues.
Experience Essential
* Experience of working in a care environment.
Desirable
* Nursing experience within the NHS / Hospital Setting.
* Manual handling of patients, using lifting aids.
Qualifications Essential
* Vocational qualification level 3 or equivalent / level 2 qualification in care and willing to undertake relevant level 3 qualification upon appointment.
* Care Certificate or expected to gain within 12 weeks of commencing in Trust.
* Willing and able to undertake Safety Intervention training.
* I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
Address
Pershore Hospital
Queen Elizabeth Drive
Pershore
Worcestershire
WR10 1PS
Employer's website
https://www.hacw.nhs.uk/careers #J-18808-Ljbffr