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Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Camberley

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Job summary

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a full-time Band 3 Healthcare Assistant at Frimley Park Hospital. This role involves delivering high-quality patient care in a busy trauma orthopaedic environment, where flexibility and teamwork are essential. Applicants will have the opportunity to undertake training and gain recognized qualifications while on the job, contributing positively to patient experiences.

Qualifications

Previous experience of dealing with the general public.
Experience in a UK care setting.
Willingness to work full shift patterns including nights and weekends.

Responsibilities

Provide compassionate care to patients under supervision.
Assist with hygiene and basic nursing tasks.
Ensure patient safety and wellbeing.

Skills

Ability to communicate clearly

Basic numeracy and literacy

Ability to follow clear instructions

Ability to work with minimal supervision

Education

GCSE Maths and English Grade C/4 or above or equivalent

Care Certificate

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Job Overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic, full time Band 3 Healthcare Assistant. The candidates are expected to have some experience in a hospital environment dealing with the general public. You need to be flexible and able to rotate your shifts to cover days, nights and weekends.

This is a great opportunity for Care Assistants to take more responsibility and a role in the Trauma Orthopaedic environment at Frimley Park Hospital.

F6 Trauma ward is a 33 bedded busy unit looking after patients with various orthopaedic conditions and occasionally some medical/surgical outlier patients.

This vacancy is linked with the opportunity for Apprenticeship (for those eligible for Apprenticeships). This will support you to gain relevant knowledge, skills and experience that will help you achieve your potential in this role. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain a national recognised qualification while you are working and earning, which will support you in both this role and in your future career at Frimley Health. You will not be required to undertake an apprenticeship if you have previously completed a relevant apprenticeship, NVQ or similar Healthcare qualification.

Main duties of the job

As a Health Care Assistant you will work under direct or indirect supervision of a registered nurse/Nursing Associate.

The care you give to patients will be compassionate, caring, and high quality.

You will recognise your abilities and limitations of your competence and only carry out those tasks for which you are trained.

As a member of the ward team you will support the other staff, act in the best interest of patients and treat everyone with respect.

As a Trust employee you will honour your work commitments, be reliable, trustworthy and uphold the values and beliefs of the Trust and the Skills for Health Code of Conduct.

Some of the main duties of the job include, but not limited to as a non-registered care worker:

Undertake some aspects of care provision without direct supervision.
Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of patients.
Always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person-centred care principles.
To assist members of the multi-disciplinary team to maintain patient’s fundamental needs and ensure patient safety.
To carry out duties in support and under supervision of a registered nurse or Nursing Associate.
To participate in direct patient care and other general duties within the clinical area employed.
To assist with a range of non-clinical duties.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For full details of the job responsibilities please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Some Of The Key Tasks Required Include

To provide professional, competent basic nursing care to patients and relatives without direct supervision.
To competently undertake basic agreed clinical activities without direct supervision.
To prioritise own workload and make independent minor decisions.
To provide Health Education and Promotion to both patients and relatives.
To provide basic wound care following training under senior supervision until evidence of competency has been demonstrated, including aseptic technique and obtaining wound swabs correctly and application of slings and tub grip.
To provide the extended role of applying Plaster of Paris under senior supervision following completion of training and evidence of competency.
To undertake venepuncture and cannulation duties under senior supervision following completion of training and evidence of competency.
To process blood samples through POC machines.
To ensure blood results are signed by medical staff.
Assist in the discharge planning.
To assist patients with hygiene needs while maintaining patient dignity.
To promote good hand washing technique in conjunction with infection control policies/protocols.
To accurately record patient observations and report findings to the qualified named nurse.
Accurately record ECG’s on completion of training and report back to the qualified named nurse following interpretation by doctor.
Assist named nurse with care of the bereaved following completion of training.
Work in collaboration with all members of the multi-disciplinary care team and promote good working relationships (including police, ambulance, OT, physiotherapists, doctors, speciality nurses and social services).
To raise all safeguarding issues to the nurse in charge.
To observe all health and safety regulations and to keep updated in training in accordance with the Trust policies.
Ensure effective communication to promote smooth transition between speciality units/wards and safely escort patients between care environments and wards.
Produce clear and factual documentation to the standards of the Record Keeping Act and demonstrate excellent telephone communication skills and messenger service.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

GCSE Maths and English Grade C/4 or above or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria

Previous experience of dealing with the general public
Care Certificate
Experience in a UK care setting

Desirable criteria

Experience of manual handling
Experience on a hospital ward

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

Ability to communicate clearly
Basic numeracy and literacy
Ability to follow clear instructions and feedback from staff
Ability to work with minimal supervision

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

Willingness to work full shift patterns, including early/late/night shifts and weekends and bank holidays

Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria

We will expect your values and behaviours to mirror those of the Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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Healthcare Assistant

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Camberley

On-site

GBP 20,000 - 25,000