Community Hospital Health Care Assistant (Cockermouth)

NHS; Cockermouth; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity at a community hospital seeks a motivated Healthcare Assistant to join a dedicated nursing team. This role involves providing high-quality care to patients with complex needs, promoting independence, and facilitating hospital discharge. The position is part-time, with shifts that may include nights and weekends. The Trust is committed to delivering outstanding healthcare services and values a diverse workforce. Join a compassionate team focused on making a positive impact in the community and advancing your clinical skills in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Relocation assistance for certain posts

Flexible working hours

Support for professional development

Qualifications

• Ability to maintain high standards of patient care and work in a caring environment.
• Willingness to undertake a Care Certificate if not already held.

Responsibilities

• Support patients with personal hygiene and daily living activities.
• Work with a multi-disciplinary team to deliver high-quality patient care.

Skills

Good communication and interpersonal skills

Ability to work as a member of a team

Organisational skills

Ability to meet deadlines

Ability to demonstrate compassionate values

Education

Care Certificate or willingness to undertake

Job description

Community Hospital Health Care Assistant (Cockermouth)

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a motivated and enthusiastic Band 2 Healthcare Assistant to work within the Cockermouth ward based Nursing Team. This is a permanent, part-time position.

Isel ward aims to address the challenges of an aging population and increasing demand on health and care services by providing more patient centred hospital care and empowering people to take control of their health and wellbeing. This will require new ways of working to focus on preventing ill health and ensure services are sustainable for the future.

This role requires you to demonstrate the skills and knowledge to support the provision of high quality care, to support patients with complex needs within the community hospital setting.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is looking to develop their clinical skills and expertise in caring for patients, working closely with health and social care colleagues to promote independence, facilitate hospital discharge which can be complex and promote independence through reablement and management of long-term conditions.

The shifts are predominantly 12hrs with half hour break included; however, the Rota is completed based on service need and this may change to support this. Shifts include nights, weekends and bank holidays.

Main duties of the job

As a Health Care Assistant in a multi-disciplinary team, work with other health and social care professionals to develop the ethos of multi-disciplinary, integrated care and seamless services ensuring that patient care is delivered to the highest possible standard. Working under the direction of a registered health care professional, undertake a range of delegated patient nursing and care duties including clinical observations and recording patient information. This will include supporting patients with personal hygiene and activities of daily living.

Working on many occasions unsupervised, assess patients, plan and implement care in the hospital setting, provide advice and education to patients, carers and colleagues, maintain associated records, and carry out nursing procedures. Flexible working is required to meet the needs of the patients group.

About us

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':

1. Being a clinically led organisation
2. Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
3. A positive patient experience every time
4. A great place to work
5. Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.

The essential criteria for this role includes the requirement to have a care certificate or the willingness and ability to undertake this. For further information, please see the additional information link which can be viewed under the read this before applying section.

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Care Certificate or the willingness and ability to undertake

Knowledge & Experience

• Ability to maintain and improve knowledge, skills and competence to ensure high standards of patient care
• Ability to carry out routine elements of assessment to enhance the patient / client journey, following an initial assessment by a registered practitioner
• Ability to meet basic care needs of patients, washing dressing, assistance with feeding etc.
• Understanding of confidentiality
• Knowledge of Child Development
• Work in customer focused / caring environment

Skills and Aptitudes

• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work as a member of a team
• Ability to use initiative appropriately
• Organisational skills
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to demonstrate the compassionate values and behaviours needed for dignified care

Personal Circumstances

• Ability to communicate with members of the public and health care providers
• Presents self as courteous, respectful and helpful and understands importance of professional image
• Ability to work effectively under direct supervision, as part of the multi-disciplinary team
• Motivation, interest and enthusiasm in caring for children and their families
• Team focussed
• Understands responsibility of position
• Understands the need for flexibility
• Reassuring under pressure
• Open/Reflective/Warm
• Reliable, Adaptable and Dependable

Other Requirements

• Alignment to Trust Values and Core Behaviours
• Equality and Diversity (from KSF core dimension 6- one to be selected)
• Act in ways that support equality and value diversity (Level 1)
• Support equality and value diversity (Level 2)

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.

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust