Community Healthcare Assistant

East Coast Community Healthcare CIC; Burgh St. Peter; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

East Coast Community Healthcare CIC is seeking a compassionate Healthcare Assistant to join the Primary Care Home team. You will deliver clinical interventions to adults in community settings, visiting patients in their homes or residential care and working alongside a multidisciplinary team to support self-management and wellbeing.

The role covers tasks from wound care to venepuncture and insulin administration, with opportunities to develop skills in palliative and end-of-life care as part of

Responsibilities

• Deliver clinical interventions in patients' homes or residential settings
• Provide wound care and venepuncture where appropriate
• Assist with catheter maintenance and insulin administration for diabetic patients
• Support palliative and end-of-life care and rehabilitation
• Work within a multidisciplinary team and follow lone worker safety policies

Job description

EXCITING OPPORTUNITY, NOT TO BE MISSED! We are looking for caring and compassionate Healthcare Assistant to become part of our Primary Care Home (PCH) team to deliver clinical interventions for patients with a wide range of health care needs in a variety of community settings.

As a Healthcare Assistant you will gain experience in many clinical skills including but not limited to; wound care, venepuncture, catheter maintenance, promoting self care, administration of insulin to support our diabetic patients, palliative care, end of life care and rehabilitation support to name a few. The post holder will visit patients in their own homes or residential care to deliver these interventions either on their own or with another clinical member of staff. We will provide support and education to develop the required skills. We have a robust lone worker policy ensuring your safety whilst working within the community.

Staff say they enjoy working as part of the PCH as they have a direct positive impact to patient care within the local community and know they make a difference. "Working as part of a multidisciplinary team you always have access to a wide range of health care professionals which makes you feel highly supported and a provides a great working environment", The successful applicant will work under the direction of clinicians in the Primary Care Home team to provide a high standard of nursing care. This multidisciplinary team includes Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Assistant Practitioner, Social Workers, Phlebotomists and Rehabilitation Support Workers. The Primary Care Home (PCH) is a multidisciplinary team working closely with GP's and other community partners to provide an excellent standard of person centered care to adults in their own homes, residential care or clinic settings, using a health coaching approach to support patients to self manage whenever possible. The service uses SystmOne as a clinical IT system to support mobile working.

Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you want to develop and grow your skills in an encouraging and supportive team? If yes, come and join us! Shift patterns can vary across the core hours of 0830 - 1630, Monday to Sunday. Applicants will be required to work weekend and bank holiday shift, working on a rotational basis.

ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders., We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.

At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.