Healthcare Assistant

NHS Jobs; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Healthcare Support Worker to join our team across clinical settings in both part-time and full-time roles. You will work closely with individuals, helping them with daily living activities under the Multi-Disciplinary Team.

Responsibilities include undertaking delegated clinical care duties, recording observations, using digital systems, and contributing to care and recovery plans while promoting independence and dignity for patients.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 2 in healthcare or working towards.
• GCSE English/Maths or Level 2 or higher.
• Experience of working with people.
• Experience in hospital or direct care environment.

Responsibilities

• Communicates information to staff, patients, relatives and carers.
• Communicates empathetically and clearly where language barriers exist.
• Communicates with patients whose first language may not be English using written and oral skills.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with patients, relatives and colleagues; provide routine information with tact.
• Assist the nursing staff in providing nursing and clerical support in ward areas.
• Assist nursing staff in providing support for carers.

Education

NVQ Level 2 in healthcare

Job description

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust have an exciting opportnity for Health Care Support Worker. There is opportnity for applicants to work in a variety of clinical settings across the organisation in both part time and full time positions. We can also offer opportunity for successful candidates to work on the Nurse Bank.

As a Healthcare Support Worker you will be working closely with individuals, providing care to enable them to complete activities of daily living with support of the Multi-Disciplinary Team of Nurses, Occupational Therapists, psychologists, Social Workers and Doctors.Within the role you will be required to:

• Undertake a range of delegated clinical care duties
• Record patient observations and changes to patient clinical conditions
• Engage with a variety of digital systems that promote accurate recording of a patients clinical condition.

Main duties of the job

• Using appropriate assessment tools under supervision to assist the registeredpractitioner in assessment of the patients' health and wellbeing needs.
• Initiate emergency action when required e.g cardiac arrest, fire
• Identify/contribute to their own goals to improve their quality of life
• Participate in clinical skills as trained in line with role e.g recording ECG's
• Contribute to their own care/support/recovery plans
• Support individuals to express their needs and wishes
• Promote their personal hygiene and physical health.
• Actively engage in health promotion
• Engage in meaningful and enjoyable activity
• To support individuals with external activities/appointments under indirectsupervision
• May have responsibility for patient monies/valuables which need to be handledwithin GHFT guidelines
• Assist individuals with activities of daily living encouraging activeparticipation and independence

About us

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronymICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.

Job responsibilities

• Communicates information to staff, patients, relatives and carers.
• Communicates information in an empathetic and reassuring way where there may be barriers to communication/understanding i.e. speech/language/hearing difficulties.
• Communicates with patients, clients, relatives and staff whose first language may not be English. Is able to communicate effectively using written and oral skills.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with patients, relatives and colleagues.Provide and receive routine information requiring tact or persuasive skills; barriers to understanding.
• To assist the nursing staff in providing nursing, clerical support hotel type services within the ward area.
• To assist nursing staff in providing support for carers.

For more information please see the attached Job Description.

Shortlisting

• NVQ Level 2 in healthcare or expected to work towards NVQ Level 2 in healthcare
• GCSE in English / Maths or Fundamental Skills Level 2 or higher
• Experience of working with people
• Experience in hospital or direct care environment

shortlisting

• GCSE in English / Maths or fundamental skills level 2 or higher

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.

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Peter Smith Surgery Centre

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Peter Smith Surgery Centre