Band 3 Health Care Assistant - East Locality Clinics

Birmingham Community Health Care Nhs Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Birmingham is looking for a Clinic healthcare support worker to join the community nursing teams. You will support non-housebound patients needing complex clinical interventions and provide a holistic care approach. Experience in wound care, particularly leg ulcers and compression therapy, is essential. This role involves collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to ensure high-quality patient care. If you want to be part of a dedicated team striving for better health in the community, apply now.

Qualifications

• Experience with complex clinical interventions and holistic patient care.
• Ability to follow care plans and implementation of care.
• Collaboration within multidisciplinary teams for patient care.

Responsibilities

• Support non-housebound patients requiring complex clinical interventions.
• Deliver high-quality care to patients within health centers.
• Promote health, well-being, and independence for patients.

Skills

Wound care experience

Interest in leg ulcers

Compression therapy knowledge

Catheter care experience

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join the East Locality in the role of Clinic healthcare support worker. The successful candidate will work as a Clinic HCA as part of the community nursing teams supporting non housebound patients that require clinical interventions that are deemed complex and therefore do not meet practice nurse criteria. You will need to be able to travel to the clinic sites. You will provide a holistic approach to individuals, that includes, following care plans and implementation of care., The post holder will work as part of the integrated Multidisciplinary team under the of the Clinical Team Manager. He / She will be accountable for the delivery of high quality care to patients within health centers. Working with other members of the IMT to provide care to and promote health/well being and independence for patients on the team caseload, working closely with other partners/stakeholders including GPs, Tissue Viability and vascular clinics.

The successful candidate should have experience of wound care, with a particular interest in caring for leg ulcers, compression therapy and lymphoedema care as well as catheter care.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.