Healthcare Assistant Complex Leg Wound Service

Integrated Care System; Stroud; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 27,000; Part time

Job summary

An Integrated Care System is seeking a part-time Healthcare Assistant for the Complex Leg Wound Service at Stroud General Hospital. This role involves providing high-quality care to patients with complex leg wounds, supporting the clinic team, and engaging in patient education to ensure continuity of care. Candidates must possess an NVQ Level 3, experience in direct patient care, and the willingness to educate patients to promote self-care and prevent ulcer recurrence.

Qualifications

• Experience of direct adult patient care in a health/social care setting.
• Some wound care experience.
• Proven ability to work unsupervised.

Responsibilities

• Support the clinic caseload leads in the delivery of direct patient care.
• Provide high standard of leg ulcer management and wound care.
• Educate patients on their condition and treatment needs.

Skills

Wound care experience

Team working abilities

Patient education

Education

NVQ level 3 or equivalent

Level 1/GCSE English and Maths

Job description

Go back Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Healthcare Assistant Complex Leg Wound Service

The closing date is 25 August 2025

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 22.5 hours per week.

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for a highly motivated, and experienced healthcare assistant who has a passion for improving complex leg wounds. This post is based in the Complex Leg clinic at Stroud General Hospital and is part of a wider team covering 5 clinics around the county. There will be occasional need to travel to other clinics to cover sickness and leave.

Main duties of the job

You will be working as a member of the Complex Leg Wound Service, supporting the clinic caseload leads in the delivery of direct patient care. You will be given any necessary training needed, through formal teaching and gaining practical skills in clinic working with an experienced nurse.

You will be working in a supportive team committed to high standards of patient care. Clinical support will be provided by Complex Leg Specialist Nurses and the Professional Lead. Development within the role is encouraged.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Job responsibilities

• To work as member of the Lower Limb and Complex Wound Team and to support the clinic caseload leads in the delivery of direct patient care
• To provide high standard of leg ulcer management and wound care to people in the community as delegated by the nurses with specialist interest.
• Provide continuity of care and treatment to patients in the clinic and report any changes to the nurses with specialist interest.
• To work as a skilled practitioner and develop expertise in compression bandaging skills.
• To measure and assess healed legs for compression hosiery at defined intervals with supervision.
• To work in line with clear treatment pathways and encourage patient concordance by tailoring treatment to their specific needs.
• To educate the patient in understanding their condition which requires wearing of compression hosiery to prevent ulcer recurrence.
• Patient education forms an important part of this role, teaching self-care to patients to prevent reoccurred

Person Specification

UK driving licence

• Level 1/GCSE English and Maths (or equivalent Adult Literacy and Numeracy)
• NVQ level 3 or equivalent
• Experience of direct adult patient care in a health/social care setting
• Evidence of team working abilities
• Some wound care experience
• Proven ability to work unsupervised

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.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

£24,937 to £26,598 a yearper annum (pro rata)