Healthcare Assistant Critical Care Band 3

Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust; England; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 3 Healthcare Assistant to join a busy Critical Care Team. This role involves providing essential patient care under the direction of qualified nursing staff, ensuring high-quality, dignified care for critically ill patients. With a focus on teamwork and respect, this position offers a chance to develop within a supportive environment, contributing to the well-being of patients and their families. If you are compassionate, reliable, and ready for a challenge, we welcome your application to join a dynamic and motivated team.

Qualifications

• Good standard of general education, including numeracy & literacy skills.
• Previous healthcare experience, preferably in acute care setting.

Responsibilities

• Support clinical team in caring for critically ill patients.
• Ensure clean and organized clinical areas.

Skills

Communication Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Organizational Skills

Ability to Work Flexibly

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Healthcare

Care Certificate

Job description

Band 3 Main area Critical care Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week) Job ref 343-7051887-RB-SK Site St Helier ICU Town Carshalton Salary £29,176 - £30,225 per annum inc HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing Today at 23:59

• The pay scales advertised have been confirmed by NHS England, we are awaiting confirmation of when these will be reflected. The new scales can be found here: Pay scales for 2024/25 | NHS Employers
  
  

At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.

Job overview Band 3 Healthcare Assistants - Critical Care Team

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 3 Healthcare Assistant to join our busy Critical Care Team (ICU/HDU) at Epsom & St Helier University Hospital NHS Trust.

The base site for this post is St.Helier Hospital ICU.

St .Helier Hospital ICU currently comprises of 13 beds incorporating specialities including; emergency/scheduled general surgery, acute medicine and, renal.

Epsom Hospital HDU/ICU comprises of 8 beds. It predominantly provides care for elective surgical and acute medical admissions.

As Critical Care provision is a 24 hours, 7 days a week service, applicants will be expected to undertake internal rotation, including weekends, night duties and bank holidays.

In order to fulfill the job role, learning and development requirements, and service needs applicants will be required to work across both hospital sites.

Main duties of the job

The HCA role supports the clinical team in caring for critically ill patients and their loved ones, and ensuring clean and organised clinical areas. You would be responsible for providing fundamental aspects of patient care at the direction of the qualified nursing team to ensure critically ill patients and their loved ones receive high quality, dignified and respectful care.

We are looking for someone who is hands-on with healthcare experience, preferably in acute care, and who possess the following attributes;

• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills.
• Ability to work confidently and collaboratively across professional boundaries and use your initiative.
• Ability to work flexibly according to the day-to-day service needs.
• Willingness to develop within this role.
  
  

This post is not currently linked to a Band 4 Career Progression Pathway.

Are you compassionate, reliable, driven and ready for a challenge? If so, we look forward to welcoming you to join our dynamic, motivated and friendly team.

The HCA role has been developed to support the clinical team in caring for critically ill patients and their loved ones, and ensuring clean and organised clinical areas. You would be responsible for providing fundamental aspects of patient care at the direction of the qualified nursing team to ensure critically ill patients receive high quality, dignified and respectful care.

Working for our organisation

We have a dedicated critical care education team. We will support you to develop your confidence and competence through a programme of supervised practice, bespoke critical care specific competencies and study days.

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting documents.

For Further Details/informal Visits Please Contact

Emma Conroy Critical Care Matron Tel: [phone]

Suzy Knightly - Critical Care Practice Development Senior Sister - Tel: [phone]

Person Specification Qualifications Essential Criteria

• Good standard of general education, including numeracy & literacy skills, with attention to accuracy & detail.
• Completed NVQ Level 3 in Healthcare or equivalent
• Completed Care Certificate
  
  

Knowledge and experience Essential criteria

• Previous healthcare care experience, preferably in acute care setting
• Awareness of difference in HCA role in Critical Care
• Awareness of patients & relatives/carers needs in the Critical Care environment
  
  

SKILLS/APTITUDES/ COMMUNICATION Essential criteria

• Understanding of cultural differences & needs.
  
  

SKILLS/APTITUDES/ COMMUNICATION Essential criteria

• Ability to sensitively deal with sensitive or emotionally challenging situations
  
  

Persona qualities Essential criteria

• Ability to work in a rapidly changing & challenging work environment & in stressful situations
• Able to work as part of a team & use own initiative, always acting in a professional manner
  
  

Your application : Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.

References : You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.

Closing date : In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting : You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.

DBS : We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.