| Posting date: | 06 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,071.00 to £25,674.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £24071.00 – £25674.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 January 2025 |
| Location: | Oldham, OL1 1NL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9236-25-0028 |
Health Care Assistant Job Summary
Are you a health care assistant that has a desire to work within a great team, with remarkable people, who make a difference every day? If this is you, then we would love you to come and work with us and see for yourself the difference you can make within your role.
We are looking for experienced people to join our children’s community nursing service; this dynamic service has its footprint within the Oldham locality and is provided mainly within family homes, but also across special school sites and community-based settings.
Due to service demands, a minimum of 28 hours per week is required for this role.
Health Care Assistant Main Duties
The health care assistant will work alongside immediate team colleagues and external multidisciplinary partners, to deliver continuing care packages for children and young people, aged 0 – 19 (up to 21 years in some exceptional circumstances), who have life limiting / complex care needs and or technology dependence. The hours worked will be based within family homes and community settings across a 7 day working week and across day, evening and night shifts.
Thehealth care assistant will within the Children’s Long-term Ventilation and Complex needs team but may at times utilise their skills and knowledge, by working across other areas of the wider children’s community nursing service as deemed necessary and appropriate by the service lead.
About us
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential tomake a differenceand we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values –care,appreciateandinspire– to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
To apply for this job please visit findajob.dwp.gov.uk.