Healthcare Assistant - Ward 31 Trauma and Orthopaedics

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; AUD 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 2 Healthcare Assistant to join the Orthopaedic trauma team on Ward 31 at the Aintree site. You will be part of a supportive team delivering high standards of patient care in an acute, 28-bed unit.

A full trust induction is provided with opportunities for development, and the role requires day and night shifts across a 7-day week. The post is permanent and based at Aintree, with the broader LUHFT group operating across multiple

Qualifications

• Band 2 Healthcare Assistant role in orthopaedics.
• Willingness to work day and night shifts across a 7 day week.
• Commitment to high standards of patient care.

Responsibilities

• Participate in all aspects of patient care with emphasis on personal hygiene and grooming.
• Support patients with toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity.
• Assist with continence management and monitor intake/output.
• Record fluid balance and dietary intake as part of care plan.
• Prepare and serve meals, assist with feeding when needed.
• Help maintain mobility using appropriate exercises and equipment.
• Assist with movement and handling per safety guidelines and training.
• Assist in specimen collection for ward or lab testing.
• Support removal of cannulae and catheters as required.

Skills

Patient care

Hygiene support

Mobility assistance

Continence care

Dietary support

Job description

Healthcare Assistant - Ward 31 Trauma and Orthopaedics

Company:

Company: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

A Vacancy at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

An opportunity has arisen for a Band 2 Healthcare Assistant to join us within the orthopaedic division at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust ( Aintree Site). This is an exciting post which allows the successful candidate the opportunity to work as part of the Orthopaedic trauma team here at Aintree.

*Please note this vacancy may close early once sufficient applications have been received*

37.5 Hours per week - day and night shifts.

Permanent

An opportunity has arisen within the orthopaedic division at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust ( Aintree Site). This is an exciting post which allows the successful candidate the opportunity to work as part of the Orthopaedic trauma team here at Aintree.

We are a 28 bedded trauma orthopaedic unit who covers all orthopaedic needs across Liverpool.

The role involves supporting qualified practitioners to deliver high levels of care to patients in an acute setting. The successful candidate would be joining a supportive and enthusiastic team who are committed to providing high standards of patient care.

A full trust induction will be available to the successful candidate, and support would be offered for future development.

The successful candidate must be able to work days and nights and be flexible to meet service needs with duties across a 7 day working week.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.

• Participates in all aspects of patient care with particular attention to personal hygiene and grooming.
• Provision of patients toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
• Support of patients in managing incontinence and promotion of continence.
• The recording of a patient’s fluid intake and output using fluid balance charts.
• Preparation and serving of patient’s meals, drinks and snacks. Assisting / feeding patients as necessary.
• The recording of patient’s dietary intake when indicated in the patient’s plan of care.
• Enable patients to maintain/improve their mobility by use of exercise and mobility appliances.
• Assist in the prevention of pressure sore development as directed by the Registered nurse
• in conjunction with the patient’s plan of care
• Carry out any movement and handling within the safe practice guidelines from your mandatory training and in relation to the patient’s manual handling plan.
• Obtaining specimens from patients for ward or laboratory testing.
• Removal of cannula and catheters

This advert closes on Wednesday 21 Oct 2026

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust