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Posting date: 11 November 2024
Salary: £24,873.00 to £24,873.00 per year
Additional salary information: £24873.00 a year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 18 November 2024
Location: Bracknell, RG12 7RX
Company: NHS Jobs
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: C9151-24-1785

Health care Assistants Job summary

Health care Assistants are essential and valued team members that play a very important role in a patient’s hospital journey. You will be working as part of a multi disciplinary team alongside Nurses, Therapists, Doctors, Discharge Coordinators and Administrators.

The aim is to deliver high quality care to patients in an inpatient rehabilitation setting, supporting rehabilitation goals in order for patients to be able to go home safely.

When joining Frimley Health, we can offer you a supportive working environment as well as training and development to meet your needs. If you have an interest in providing exceptional patient care as well as developing your clinical knowledge and skills then please apply via this vacancy.

This health care assistant vacancy is linked to a Level 2 Apprenticeship. This will support you to gain relevant knowledge, skills and experience that will help you achieve your potential in this role. Working alongside the Trust’s experienced staff you will be supported to gain the apprenticeship qualification and functional skills in maths and English if required. This is a great opportunity to gain a national recognised qualification while you are working and earning, which will support you in both this role and in your future career at Frimley Health.

You will not be required to undertake an apprenticeship if you have previously completed a relevant apprenticeship, NVQ or similar qualification.

 

Health Care Assistant Main duties

The health care assistant will be primarily assisting the Nursing team with care of the patients and will facilitate the smooth running of the department. You need to be driven and prepared to deliver high quality care and attention to detail.

In this role you can look forward to a career full of development opportunities and the support from an excellent team of healthcare professionals – working alongside a reliable and friendly team.

 

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the role responsibilities, please read the attached Job Description.

Some of the key role responsibilities include:

  • The health care assistant will undertake agreed clinical activities including collection of urine and faecal samples, swabs, recording of fluid intake/output, changing of stomas and urine drainage bags, catheter care, recording of pulse/temperature/blood pressure/saturations and MET scoring, and to advise the team nurse of any changes in a patients condition.
  • The health care assistant will assist patients to eat and drink as required, assisting in menu selection and being aware of special dietary requirements and cultural requirements.
  • The health care assistant will  enable and assist patients to maintain their personal hygiene.
  • The health care assistant will contribute to the safe movement of patients, using equipment to mobilise and move patients, after mobility assessment, to ensure patient comfort.
  • The health care assistant will assist with discharge procedures.
  • The health care assistant will maintain patient records.
  • To tidy rooms and bed areas, and to clean and strip beds and remake after patient discharge, dealing with disposal of soiled linen as per policy.
  • To ensure ward equipment is suitably maintained and cleaned frequently.
  • The health care assistant will support rehabilitation goals of the patients in the unit.

 

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • GCSE Maths and English Grade C/4 or above or equivalent
  • Ability to communicate clearly
  • Basic numeracy and literacy
  • Ability to follow clear instructions and feedback from staff
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision
  • We will expect your values and behaviours to mirror those of the Trust

Desirable

  • Care certificate completed

Experience

Essential

  • Previous experience of dealing with the general public

Desirable

  • Experience of manual handling
  • Experience in a healthcare setting
  • Experience on a hospital ward

Working pattern

Essential

  • Willingness to work full shift patterns, including early/late/night shifts and weekends and bank holidays

Desirable

  • To be flexible with working patterns

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

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

To apply for this job please visit findajob.dwp.gov.uk.