We currently have vacancies within the Specialist Medicine Care Group.
Our Healthcare Assistants are a vital part of the ward team, working closely with the registered nurses, the medical team and allied health professionals to ensure a positive experience and patient journey within hospital.
The candidate must be able to provide holistic compassionate care, ensuring dignity and respect for patients and their families. The candidate must use appropriate skills and knowledge to maintain safety, manage workload and prioritise effectively.
The role of the HCA can be physically, mentally and emotionally demanding job, the HCA must be able to work in such a way that safeguards the patient and themselves as well as be able to actively take part in risk management as part of the wider team. The HCA must be able to adapt and work effectively with those with vulnerabilities or additional needs.
Care experience isn’t limited to working in a hospital environment so those with care experience such as care home, domiciliary care, special education and primary care (i.e GP) will be considered. Ensuring transferable skills and personal qualities can be demonstrated through application and interview.
Shifts are generally Days 0700 - 1930 or Nights 1900 - 0730. Term time or school hours cannot be accommodated however other flexible working arrangements can be discussed. Advert may close early if there is a high volume of applicants
The HCA must be able to communicate effectively, ensuring patients preferences are respected and that the patient feels as comfortable as possible in what can be a difficult time. The candidate must be able to support both patients and families who have received bad news or require support during end of life care.
The HCA must be able to develop and demonstrate an awareness of how illness can affect a person and what interventions and medical/nursing treatment the patient is receiving, this is through understanding of patient report, through visual observation and close working with the RN. Ensuring working within scope of practice, seeking support and escalating to the registered nurse as necessary.
Following orientation and training, the HCA is expected to be able to support with all aspects of basic patient care, such as washing and dressing, bowel and bladder care including continence management, skin care and pressure area care, nutrition and hydration support, mobilisation as per care plan and use of moving and handling equipment, promoting active recovery, rehabilitation and engagement activities as well as patient chaperones and escort.
The HCA may also support the RN with clinical duties such as wound care. The HCA must be able to ensure clear and concise documentation in patient records
NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
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This advert closes on Monday 3 Feb 2025