Healthcare Assistant - Ward 1A Frailty | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare organization in Liverpool seeks a Band 3 Healthcare Assistant to support the care of older patients in a geriatric environment. Key responsibilities include assisting with personal hygiene, nutrition, and mobility, along with recording vital patient data. Ideal candidates should have experience in patient care and be skilled in maintaining patient dignity and safety.

Qualifications

• Experience in patient care settings, particularly geriatric care.
• Skills in supporting personal hygiene and grooming.
• Ability to maintain patient dignity while providing care.

Responsibilities

• Participate in all aspects of patient care and hygiene.
• Support patients' toileting needs and incontinence management.
• Assist patients with meals, drinks, and dietary intake tracking.

Skills

Patient care

Mobility assistance

Dietary management

Fluid balance recording

Job description

An opportunity has arisen for a Band 3 Healthcare Assistant to join us within the Department of Medicine for Older People and Stroke at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Royal Site). This post allows the successful candidate to work as part of the team on Ward 1A Frailty & Geriatric same day emergency care.

CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participates in all aspects of patient care with particular attention to personal hygiene and grooming.
• Provision of patients toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
• Support of patients in managing incontinence and promotion of continence.
• The recording of a patient’s fluid intake and output using fluid balance charts.
• Preparation and serving of patient’s meals, drinks and snacks. Assisting / feeding patients as necessary.
• The recording of patient’s dietary intake when indicated in the patient’s plan of care.
• Enable patients to maintain/improve their mobility by use of exercise and mobility appliances.
• Assist in the prevention of pressure sore development as directed by the Registered nurse in conjunction with the patient’s plan of care.
• Carry out any movement and handling within the safe practice guidelines from your mandatory training and in relation to the patient’s manual handling plan.
• Obtaining specimens from patients for ward or laboratory testing.
• Removal of cannulae, catheters and nasogastric tubes.
• Undertake the dressing of non-complex wounds (in accordance with identified competencies and in conjunction with the plan of care).
• Naso-gastric/PEG feeding once the tube has been passed and checked by a registered professional.
• Prepare and maintain environments for clinical treatments and investigations.

This advert closes on Monday 17 Nov 2025.