Community Healthcare Assistant

NHS; Malton; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and social care Trust is seeking an experienced Healthcare Assistant to join their Community Nursing Service in Malton on a fixed-term contract. The role involves providing personalized care to patients at home, including those in care homes. Key responsibilities include visiting patients, documenting care, conducting vital observations, and handling equipment. Candidates should have experience in community nursing and possess clinical skills. Opportunities for professional development are provided.

Benefits

Training and qualification opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience caring for long-term condition patients or those at end of life.
• Experience in community nursing settings.
• Knowledge of multi-disciplinary working.

Responsibilities

• Visiting patients to provide necessary care as per care plans.
• Participate in handovers and document care.
• Conduct vital observations and recognize safety concerns.

Skills

Clinical skills

IT skills

Ability to work independently

Travel adaptability

Wound care

Phlebotomy

Diabetes care

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa and therefore HTFT would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Healthcare Assistant to join the Community Nursing Service in Malton for a fixed term 1 year contract.

Our experienced Community Nursing Service works across Malton, Ampleforth and Rillington areas providing personalised, quality care to patients in their own homes including care homes.

This is a 7 day service.

We invest in our workforce by offering opportunities to our team members to progress their careers through further training and qualifications.

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 developed and 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 that delivers care to communities in Hull, East Yorkshire, Scarborough and Ryedale and Whitby. We deliver safe, effective and integrated health services that improve the physical, mental and social health and wellbeing of our patients and service users.

To find out more about our wide range of services including mental health, learning disabilities, children and young people service, Forensic, Community and Primary Care visit our website humber.nhs.uk/Services

You will join our team of over 3600 colleagues that work together across our wide geography and specialties to change lives every day. We're extremely proud of our Trust community and we know you can expect to receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need from your new team to get you started.

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development to ensure the delivery of high quality, person-centred and compassionate care to patients. We value our staff and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills and competencies to deliver outstanding care.

Job responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy, 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 end of life
• Experience of working within a Community Nursing setting
• Experience of using SystmOne

Skills and Competencies

• 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.