Healthcare Assistant - Heightened Surveillance Team

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust; Guildford; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Guildford is seeking a Band 3 Healthcare Assistant to join the Heightened Surveillance Team. The role involves providing enhanced care and supervision to patients with special support needs across various wards. Ideal candidates will demonstrate a commitment to high standards of nursing care and teamwork with nursing staff. This position offers flexible working arrangements to meet service needs, including long days and nights. Join a supportive and outstanding environment committed to professional development.

Benefits

Comprehensive health and wellbeing program

Support for professional development

Investments in physical environment and new equipment

Qualifications

• Motivated and confident staff committed to delivering high standard nursing care.
• Ability to work across different wards and with patients requiring heightened supervision.
• Teamwork skills to collaborate with nursing staff effectively.

Responsibilities

• Deliver safe and effective patient care along with nursing staff.
• Support delivery of nursing care alongside multidisciplinary team.
• Work flexible hours including long days and nights as needed.

Job description

We are looking to recruit into a Band 3 Healthcare Assistant (Heightened Surveillance team) who can work across ward in-patient areas and is able to work flexible according to the needs of the service which may include a mix of long days, nights and/or Monday-Fridays.

The Heightened Surveillance Team HCA work on different areas to provide enhanced care and supervision to either an individual patient or group of patients. They also support the delivery of nursing care in conjunction with the wider multidisciplinary team.

The work of this Healthcare Assistant may move across the Medicine wards due to patient needs.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for motivated and confident staff, committed to delivering a high standard of nursing care. This will involve working with patients who may have heightened supervision or support needs.

You will be required to work alongside our nursing staff to deliver safe and effective patient care, following best practice guidelines.

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.