Healthcare Assistant

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Slough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health care provider in the UK is looking for a Health Care Assistant to support registered nurses in delivering high-quality and compassionate care to patients. The role involves undertaking clinical tasks, assisting with patient needs, and ensuring safety and dignity. Candidates must have previous care experience and the ability to work flexible shifts.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Flexible working patterns

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Must have completed the Care Certificate.
• Experience in a UK care setting is essential.
• Ability to work shifts, including nights and weekends.

Responsibilities

• Support registered nurses and participate in direct patient care.
• Ensure the safety and wellbeing of patients.
• Assist patients with basic needs and perform delegated tasks.

Skills

Customer care skills

Reliability

Trustworthiness

Communication skills

Education

GCSEs or equivalent functional skills Level 2 Numeracy and Literacy

Job description

Job Overview

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

Job Overview

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.

Skills

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. To also include, but not limited to as a non-registered care worker:

• Carrying out assigned tasks as part of clinical team in support of registered nurses
• 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.
• 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 provide support and leadership to care assistants and assist with a range of both clinical and non-clinical duties.
• To assist with a range of non-clinical duties.
  
  

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the role include, but not limited to as a non-registered care worker:

• Carrying out assigned tasks as part of clinical team in support of registered nurses
• 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 provide support and leadership to care assistants and assist with a range of both clinical and non-clinical duties.
• 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 job responsibilities details please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Required

Some of the key tasks, but not limited to as a non-registered care worker, and dependent on the skills required for a clinical area employed within include:

Provide excellent customer care skills to ensure patients come first.

Undertakes a range of delegated clinical care duties to deliver agreed plans of care, acting on own initiative.

Mentor and support new to care and Health Care Support Workers on the care certificate and to be a ‘buddy’ to any new starters.

To ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and experience an excellent patient experience whilst using our Trust services, respecting customs, and religious beliefs at all times.

Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individuals.

To care for enhanced care observation patients as required, under the Trust’s ‘Assessment, Observation and 1:1 Engagement for General Adults, Children and Young People Policy’. This may involve fulfilling the roles and responsibilities of a Mental Health Care Assistant delivering enhanced care observation, once MHCA related training study days have been attended.

To act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.

Provide support and assistance to professionals in the implementation of plans of care for individual patients:

Assist with fluid and dietary needs of patients including completion of menu cards, thickening fluids (as directed by dietician/care plan), recording intake and output of fluids and solids consumed.

As directed to collect specimens from patients and to record all vital signs of a patients. These could include routine observations of weight, blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respiratory rate, and oxygen saturation levels. Report any abnormalities and concerns to a Registered Nurse

Recognise when patients are in pain and discomfort and report to a designated registrant Nurse/AHP of a patient

To undertake venepuncture/cannulation when requested by healthcare professionals (once competency is completed).

To undertake catheterisation where competency is completed and applicable in a clinical area of employment.

To Complete Competencies Specific To The Post

To participate and in locally agreed expanded practice protocols where relevant to service need and proportionate to banding, ensuring that any requirements for competencies, audit and evaluation be maintained.

This job description forms the basis of the healthcare assistant’s duties. You should be aware that there might be other specific assigned tasks relevant to a particular area of work.

Important Information For Applicants Requiring Visa Sponsorship

Recent changes to UK immigration rules may affect your eligibility for a Health and Care Visa or Skilled Worker Visa. Sponsorship may not be possible if:

• The role does not meet the minimum salary threshold set by UKVI
• The role is not included on the Immigration Salary List (ISL)
• The role is below RQF Level 6 (graduate level)
  
  

These restrictions may also apply if you are currently on a Graduate Visa and are seeking to switch to a Skilled Worker Visa.

Please check your eligibility under the latest UKVI requirements before applying. Applications from candidates who do not meet the criteria cannot be progressed.

Person specification

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
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

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

Desirable criteria

• 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
  
  

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Evidence of general education, eg GCSE's or equivalent functional skills Level 2 Numeracy and Literacy
  
  

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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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

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