Advanced Healthcare Assistant

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; Royal Tunbridge Wells; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community healthcare provider is seeking an Advanced Healthcare Assistant to support patient care in home settings. This role involves working closely with community nursing teams to ensure high-quality healthcare delivery to vulnerable populations. Candidates are encouraged, even those who are pursuing their qualification, to apply and make a genuine difference in patient lives through compassionate care.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

In-house learning and development programs

Health and wellbeing opportunities

Qualifications

• Good IT skills required.
• Clinical skills include phlebotomy, wound dressings.
• Willingness to learn and gain competencies.

Responsibilities

• Support patients at home, ensuring comfort and safety.
• Work autonomously and collaboratively within teams.
• Assist families with patient care concerns.

Skills

Clinical skills

IT skills

Education

Level 3 NVQ or equivalent

Job description

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Join Our Compassionate Community Nursing Team as an Advanced Healthcare Assistant!

We are looking for a full-time Advanced Health Care Assistant (AHCA) to work with our community nursing teams.

You will play an important role in supporting patients by caring for them in the comfort of their own home. Your role will help the NHS meet the needs of elderly, disabled or vulnerable patients who may not be able to easily visit the GP surgery or hospital.

You will work both autonomously and collaboratively to deliver excellent patient care whilst reassuring and helping families along the way.

You will be based at Abbey Court and will work closely with our GP colleagues and other community services. We help meet your career ambitions through our flexible in-house learning and development programs including many health and wellbeing opportunities available to you.

You'll need to have the qualification level specified in the person specification in order to carry out the job, however, we welcome applicants who are currently looking to complete their level 3 NVQ or equivalent recognized qualification. Therefore, if you do not have the essential qualification for the role, this may not be an automatic barrier to you being offered an interview.

You'll need good IT skills, and will require clinical skills, for example phlebotomy, simple wound dressings, bandaging, injection technique, all of which we can support with learning and competencies.

Together we can empower you to really make a difference to patients’ lives. The very different world we are living in at the moment has given us the opportunity to rethink how we provide our services here at KCHFT.

We are proud that KCHFT currently hold DWP Disability Confident Employer status and are working towards Disability Confident Leader accreditation. We welcome applications from individuals from diverse backgrounds and those covered by the Equalities Act.

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Charlotte Durling Job title: Admin team lead Email address: [e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

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Job function

• Job function

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• Industries

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