Healthcare Assistant - Bishops Castle Community Hospital

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust; Bishop's Castle; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A community health organization in Bishops Castle is seeking a part-time Healthcare Assistant to provide personal and compassionate care to patients. This role involves supporting the nursing team, delivering high-quality care in busy settings, and performing various non-clinical tasks. The ideal candidate should have good interpersonal skills and a basic education standard, with a willingness to learn and grow in the field. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone passionate about caring and community health.

Qualifications

• Ability to demonstrate English language proficiency for service user notes.
• Awareness of healthcare assistant responsibilities and accountability issues.
• Common sense when facing difficult situations.

Responsibilities

• Deliver personal care to patients and support registered practitioners.
• Provide holistic, person-centred care in an acute setting.
• Carry out non-clinical healthcare tasks under supervision.

Skills

Effective communication

Interpersonal skills

Professionalism

Education

Good standard of general education

NVQ in health care (working towards)

Job description

Healthcare Assistant - Bishops Castle Community Hospital

Bishops Castle Community Hospital is looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Healthcare Assistant to join our team.

The ward is busy and you will need to be able to work under pressure at times. You will work within the established nursing team on the ward alongside Registered Nurses, Healthcare Support Workers and therapy staff providing care to patients on the ward.

This vacancy is part-time: 10 hours per week.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications are received, we advise you apply early to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

• A Healthcare Assistant is a core member of the team delivering personal care to patients and supporting registered practitioners to deliver high quality, compassionate care.
• To provide holistic and person-centred care and support community patients in an acute setting.
• To carry out a range of non-clinical healthcare tasks, under the direct supervision of the registered healthcare practitioner. Provide compassionate care, to agreed quality standards and in accordance with Trust values.

About us

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

• Ability to demonstrate a level of English language and grammar commensurate with writing in service user case notes.
• Good standard of general education.
• Work towards NVQ and acquire knowledge of palliative care and rehabilitation.

Experience

• Awareness of accountability issues e.g., confidentiality.
• Awareness of the role of the Healthcare Assistant.
• To be a safe member of the ward team.
• Common sense approach when faced with potentially difficult situations.

Knowledge and Skills

• The ability to communicate effectively with patients and staff both written and orally.
• Good interpersonal skills (written and oral).
• Maintain a professional approach to all team members, patients, relatives, and the general public.

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.