Healthcare Support Worker Linden Lodge

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider in Nottingham as a Healthcare Assistant, where you will play a crucial role in delivering high-quality patient care. This exciting opportunity at Linden Lodge Neuro Rehabilitation offers a supportive environment to develop your skills while working with a dedicated team. You will be responsible for providing compassionate care, assisting in rehabilitation processes, and ensuring patient comfort. With a commitment to diversity and personal development, this organization values your contributions and offers a pathway to a fulfilling career in healthcare. Embrace the chance to make a difference in patients' lives and grow professionally in a dynamic setting.

Benefits

Personal Development Opportunities

Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives

Support for Applicants

Career Progression

Healthcare Benefits

Qualifications

• Good numeracy and English skills required.
• Experience in patient care and teamwork is essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver hands-on patient care at Linden Lodge.
• Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Communication Skills

Patient Care

Teamwork

Basic IT Skills

Numeracy Skills

Education

GCSE Grade C or above in Numeracy

GCSE Grade C or above in English

Tools

Microsoft Office (Excel/Word)

Hospital IT Systems (Medway, Bluespier, Notis, Nervecentre)

Job description

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is the biggest employer in Nottingham with over 19,000 staff.

Main area: Surgery
Grade: Band 2
Contract: Permanent
Hours:

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (will consider part time hours)
Job ref: 164-6844613

Site: City Campus
Town: Nottingham
Salary: £23,615 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/01/2025 23:59

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity at Linden Lodge Neuro rehabilitation which is renowned for delivering care excellence to its patients. We will support you through a healthcare assistant induction and support you to complete the national Care Certificate.
We are looking forward to meeting candidates with high standards of care and high levels of compassion who can actively demonstrate the values of team NUH.

The role will initially be based at Linden Lodge with a view to transition to the National Rehabilitation Centre upon completion.

This role will require the successful candidate to work at the New National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC), due to open in Summer 2025.

The NRC will be a new, purpose-built 70-bed facility which will be built on the Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate near Loughborough, delivering a centre of excellence to improve rehabilitation services in England. It is co-located with the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre and will share some of the world-class rehabilitation facilities. Thanks to an academic partnership led by the University of Nottingham and Loughborough University, research and innovation and training and education in rehabilitation will be embedded at the NRC and central to clinical practice.

We are looking for ambitious and dedicated professionals to join this journey to rehabilitation excellence, transforming outcomes for patients.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for enthusiastic, dynamic and committed Healthcare Assistants to join us at Linden Lodge. We will welcome any forward-thinking, caring individual who is committed to providing a high standard of safe, high-quality patient care.

You must display excellent communication skills and be confident to deal with members of the public and the hospital multidisciplinary team.

You will be delivering hands-on patient care within Linden Lodge which includes physical tasks and involvement in the rehabilitation process.

Working for our organisation

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education, and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world-class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Good standard of numeracy and basic calculation skills to an equivalent standard of GCSE grade C or above.
• Good standard of written and spoken English to an equivalent standard of GCSE grade C or above.

Communication and relationship skills

• Demonstrate clear and effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrate computer literacy and use of IT skills – Microsoft (email/Excel/Word).
• Experience with hospital IT systems – Medway, Bluespier, Notis, Nervecentre.
• Knowledge of reception/clinic work.

Analytical and Judgement skills

• Understand the importance of confidentiality.

Experience

• Previous experience in dealing with customers, patients, or clients in a work environment.
• Experience of team working.

Physical skills

• Ability to walk long distances when escorting patients.

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Additional Information

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world-class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Closing Dates

Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Communication

All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.

Support for Applicants

NUH are now able to offer application completion support and interview preparation support. Please follow the link to book onto our sessions: Support for NUH Job Applications.

If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available. This is in line with the current guidance in England that whilst young people under the age of 18 can leave school (on the last Friday in June) they must then do one of the following:

• Stay in full-time education, for example at a college.
• Start an Apprenticeship.
• Spend 20 hours or more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training.

Salary

The quoted salary will be on a pro-rata basis for part-time workers.

Disability Confidence

All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of Redundancy

NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

ID and Right to Work Checks

NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation into the Trust ID system at your face-to-face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.

Consent

• Transfer of Information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
• Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post may be subject to a DBS check which incurs a cost dependent on the level of check required (£42.90 for enhanced and £22.90 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from the first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.

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Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.