Bank Healthcare Assistant (Community)

Integrated Care System; Melton; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider seeks an experienced Healthcare Assistant for the Community Nursing Bank. The role involves visiting patients in their homes, providing essential care, and requires transport and the ability to work flexible shifts, including nights. With a focus on staff development and patient safety, this position offers a rewarding opportunity in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience caring for long-term conditions or end of life.
• Knowledge of community nursing.
• Ability to travel between patient homes.

Responsibilities

• Visit patients at home to provide planned care.
• Document care and participate in handovers.
• Recognize and escalate patient safety concerns.

Skills

Wound care

Vital observations

Diabetes care

Phlebotomy

Communication

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Healthcare Assistant to join the Community Nursing Bank with opportunities for shifts in Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale and Pocklington both in the community and on the inpatient units in Whitby & Malton.

As an HCA working within the community, you need your own transport and to be comfortable working alone in patient homes. This is a 24/7 service with a variety of shift types available including earlies, lates and nights.

Main duties of the job

Day to day the role includes visiting patients to provide the care required according to the care plan written by a registered nurse, participating in handovers and/or safety huddles, and documenting the care provided. Clinical skills used within the role include:

• Vital observations
• Recognise and escalate issues of concern and/or safety including the deteriorating patient and issues of safeguarding
• Wound care
• End of life care
• Moving & Handling of patients
• Equipment provision & instruction in use

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Job responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Knowledge of multi - disciplinary working

knowledge & Experience

• Knowledge of specific role, service & team demonstrated on application
• Experience of caring for someone with a long-term condition or at the end of life
• Experience of working within a community nursing setting
• Experience of using SystmOne
• Able to effectively travel to multiple patient homes and care homes throughout the course of a day including transport of clinical stock required to carry out the treatment
• Sufficient IT skills to learn the systems required for clinical recording, incident reporting and equipment / stock ordering
• Confidence to work out in the community unaccompanied
• Able to work flexible hours to meet service needs including night shifts
• Clinical skills e.g. phlebotomy, bladder & bowel care, wound care, diabetes care, taking vital observations

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.