Health Care Assistant

NHS; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Knowsley is seeking a motivated Health Care Assistant to join their District Nursing Service. You will provide compassionate care to patients in their homes, assist with clinical tasks, and work with a multi-disciplinary team. A NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care is essential for this role, offering a supportive work environment with opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Supportive work environment

Opportunities for professional development

Flexible working requests considered

Qualifications

• Understanding of data protection principles and health and safety regulations.
• Ability to undertake clinical interventions according to training and competency.

Responsibilities

• Assist with clinical interventions like observations and wound care.
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and communicate effectively.
• Plan and organize own work schedule as delegated.

Skills

Previous health and social care experience

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Ability to work independently

Proactive workload management

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care

Job description

Join our dedicated Knowsley District Nursing Service, where you will have the opportunity to provide compassionate care to patients in their homes and work in the community. We pride ourselves on delivering high-quality, patient-centred care and are seeking a motivated Health Care Assistant to support the District Nursing Service in Knowsley.

You will work closely with our District Nurses and wider healthcare teams as a Health Care Assistant. This role requires you to work independently and as part of a team, ensuring our patients receive the highest standard of care. Your duties will include assisting with clinical interventions such as clinical observations, wound careas directed by an appropriate professional, maintaining accurate records, having the ability to travel across the Knowsley borough, and delivering care sensitively and confidentially.

For the successful candidate, we offer a supportive and collaborative working environment, along with ample opportunities for further training and professional development. This is a chance to grow in your career while making a difference in the lives of our patients.

Main duties of the job

• Work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Undertake a range of patient interventions within the scope of NVQ level 3 skills for patients as delegated by team leader or other qualified clinical staff.
• Offer advice to patients and carers on a wide range of health issues to include health promotion, lifestyle advice and self-care.
• Plan and organise own work schedule once delegated from team leader.
• Undertake basic patient observations.
• Work within existing clinical guidelines, policies and infection control procedures.
• Offer advice and support to patients and families in a wide range of situations.
• Communicate factual and sensitive information within confidentiality guidelines to patients, ensuring all information is appropriately documented and reported back to the team leader.
• Demonstrate own role to new starters and students.
• Ensure safe moving and handling techniques in the delivery of patient care, this can include the safe use of equipment.
• Communicate information to multi-disciplinary team and other agencies as appropriate.

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About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for the essential job criteria for full details. If you have any queries please contact the named person by email.

Person Specification

KNOWLEDGE /EXPERIENCE

• Previous and current health and social care experience
• Understanding of the principles of GDPR (Data Protection Act)
• Health and Safety
• Equality and Diversity
• Able to work without direct supervisor
• Able to plan own workload
• Ability to undertake clinical interventions commensurate to training, competency and qualifications.
• Able to work as a team member

Values

• Accountability
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care

Skills

• Ability to prioritise workload pro-actively
• Committed to raising standards in clinical areas
• Capable of working on own initiative
• Able to involve and listen to others
• Excellent developed oral and written. Communication skills
• Able to keep accurate written and electronic contemporaneous records
• Able to work in a confidential and sensitive manner
• Able to travel for work purposes

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.