Healthcare Assistant

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust; London Borough of Harrow; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust seeks a Healthcare Support Worker to join their team, where you will maintain relationships with patients and staff. This full-time role requires effective communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively to ensure quality care. Join a dedicated team impacting the community's health.

Qualifications

• Experience of working in emergency/acute settings.
• Enthusiastic, caring and compassionate attitude.
• Interest in career progression.

Responsibilities

• Assist in bathing patients and attending to hygiene needs.
• Support patients during minor treatments.
• Carry out clinical observations and report changes.

Skills

Effective communication

Ability to work as part of a team

Understanding of health and safety measures

Education

Literate and numerate, basic IT skills

Job description

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Main area Jonson ward Grade Band 2 Contract Permanent Hours 37.5 hours per week (Full-time 37.5 hours per week) Job ref 337-NP-8871MM

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

Find out more about our Trust and why you should join us#WeAreLNWH

Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy

We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.

Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.

• H onesty
• A ccountability
• T eamwork

These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.

LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Job overview

We are looking for Healthcare support worker to work as part of the team, maintaining good working relationships with patients, relatives and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
To deal with enquiries from patients, visitors and staff, as directed by qualified staff, in accordance with department practices, ensuring that patient confidentially is maintained at all times.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for Healthcare support worker to work as part of the team, maintaining good working relationships with patients, relatives and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
To deal with enquiries from patients, visitors and staff, as directed by qualified staff, in accordance with department practices, ensuring that patient confidentially is maintained at all times.

To ensure that attention is paid to patients’ individual needs.
To ensure under the direction of a qualified nurse that patients personal hygiene needs are attended to and that all patients receive the desired standard of care as per care plan.

To assist in bathing patients and attending to hygiene needs, reporting any variation in skin condition to the qualified nurse.
To carry out under supervision eye/ mouth/ skin and hair care treatment.
Under the direction of a qualified nurse, obtain specimens e.g. urine, and blood.


To sit with and support patients during minor treatments.
Assist the and nursing staff in patient positioning and exercises ensuring the patient is moved and lifted in accordance with current moving and handling techniques.

To have an understanding with regard to asepsis, undertake clinical observations e.g. temperatures, pulse, respirations, peak flow measurements and blood pressure recordings.

Working for our organisation

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Education/Qualification

• Literate and numerate, basic IT skills

Knowledge and Experience

• Effective communication
• Experience of working in emergency/acute settings
• Able to work as part of the team
• Knowledge of provision of basic health care

Skills, Abilities and Attribut

• Enthusiastic,caring and compassionate attitude
• Interest in career progression
• Understanding of health and safety measures in the workplace

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We promote the wellbeing and safety of all our patients and carers by acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately, according to the standards determined by our policy and procedures. All posts working with vulnerable groups will be subject to an enhanced criminal records check upon appointment and staff will need to give their consent for the Trust to receive regular updates on their criminal records status throughout their employment.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive for certain posts, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.After the closing date we strongly advise you check the email account which is registered. If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Our employment checking processes require that all shortlisted applicants provide the contact details of their current HR Department. If shortlisted you will be sent an email reminder to present the contact details of your HR Department at the interview.

Please note the Trust uses identity checking software for verifying the authenticity of identity documents provided by candidates.

As part of our commitment to the Equality and Diversity at LNWUH, we are encouraging applications from BME (Black ,Minority Ethnic) candidates as we seek to ensure our workforce structures are representative of the diversity of the communities we serve.

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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.