Healthcare Assistant - Ward 7 Broadgreen Hospital

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A major NHS healthcare provider in Liverpool is seeking a Band 2 Healthcare Assistant (HCA) to assist nursing staff in providing care for patients, focusing on activities of daily living, nutrition, and hydration. The role involves ensuring patient dignity, promoting mobility, and supporting emotional needs. Candidates should have experience in patient care. This position offers opportunities for personal and professional growth in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in a healthcare setting is preferred.
• Ability to assist with hygiene and nutritional needs.
• Knowledge of patient mobility practices.

Responsibilities

• Assist patients with personal care and grooming.
• Support patients in managing incontinence and toileting needs.
• Report patients’ dietary intake and assist with meal preparation.
• Conduct general observations and report to nursing staff.
• Assist in Emergency situations as required.

Skills

Patient care

Basic Life Support

Personal hygiene assistance

Mobility support

Job description

Overview

A Vacancy at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Ward 7 is a 23-bedded reablement ward caring for patients who are currently pathway 1 and 2, aiming to reduce their pathway and promote independence. We work closely with therapists and MDT to care for and plan a safe discharge for our patients.

The main duties of a band 2 HCA are to assist the nursing staff in the care of our patient group. The role involves caring for a patient's activities of daily living, nutrition and hydration and continence needs. Also promoting activity and monitoring pressure area care, as well as emotional and psychological support.

About the Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

To hear more about our achievements, see the annual report here is not reproduced in this description.

Care Duties

• Assist patients in meeting their hygiene needs and carry out all aspects of personal care and grooming (to include emptying catheter bags).
• Provision of patients toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
• Support of patients in managing incontinence.
• Measures patients fluid intake and output using fluid balance charts and reports information to Registered nurse.
• Preparation and serving of patient’s meals, drinks and snacks. Assisting / feeding patients as necessary.
• Assist patients in completing menu forms and liaise with the Catering Department with regard to the number of meals needed.
• Reports patients dietary intake as indicated in the patients plan of care.
• Carry out any movement and handling within the safe practice guidelines from mandatory training and in relation to the patient’s manual handling plan.
• Enable patients to maintain/improve their mobility by use of exercise and mobility appliances as directed by individual care plans.
• Assist in the prevention of pressure sore development as directed by the Registered nurse in conjunction with the patient’s plan of care.
• Obtaining specimens from patients for ward or laboratory testing.
• Escort patients to clinical departments within the hospital.
• Assist Registered Nurse in performing last offices.
• General observations of patients, reporting anything untoward to Registered Nursing Staff.
• Initiate Basic Life Support techniques as appropriate and provide assist to the registered nurse as required in prolonged resuscitation situations.

Ensure due regard is given to customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients and carers.

This advert closes on Friday 26 Sep 2025