Health Care Assistant Job summary
| Posting date: | 17 September 2024 |
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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: | 01 October 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE6 4JD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9197-24-1119 |
An exciting opportunity has risen for highly motivated Band 3 Health care Assistant permanent (Term time only) to join our friendly and dynamic School Health Service Team which is responsible to Safeguarded Children & Young People in Lewisham. The team is looking for enthusiastic and motivated healthcare assistant who are passionate about Safeguarding children and young people. It is desirable that the candidates have experience of working with children in the community setting with good understanding of public health. The successful candidates will need to have the ability to work as part of an integral skill-mix team. The busy team delivers to designated cohorts of school age children in schools and community setting and this includes flexible working on Saturdays to meet service needs.
Health Care Assistant Main duties
To contribute to the on-going assessment of a child by completing the appropriate administrative task allocated children, recording and reporting all clinical and behavioural information to the school nurse for action and planning purposes.
To enable children and parents to make most effective use of resources within the service by ensuring they receive up-to-date information, responding to any questions constructively. o Support 5-19-year teams in the delivery of the healthy child programme. o To use clinical judgement and skills to report any identified concerns or changes in children’s health and wellbeing status, including safeguarding concerns immediately to the relevant school health nurse. o Support the leadership of the team in using mobile working (laptops) via the RIO RECORD KEEPING system. Ensure team members are inputting data and recording progress notes in line ROCAIP and demonstrate this at your one-to-one meetings with team managers. o Providing community healthcare for children in Lewisham in school and community o To plan and implement straightforward tasks and work guided by standard operating procedures and protocols and undertake roles/duties as delegated by team leader. o Support qualified school health nurse’s co-ordination of immunisation clinic on during holiday and weekend.
About us
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
To apply for this job please visit findajob.dwp.gov.uk.