NHS
Healthcare Assistant Ward 9, Alex
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Job Description
- Req#: C9365-24-0091?language=en&page=46&sort=publicationDateDesc
- Best services for local people
- Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
- Best use of resources
- Best people
- Basic standard of education including Maths and English
- Experience of working in a patient care setting or customer facing
- environment
- Healthcare Apprenticeship or equivalent
- Experience of working in a healthcare setting
- Ability to communicate effectively, and demonstrate excellent
- communication skills: verbal, listening & written
- Legible handwriting.
- Be able to demonstrate an understanding of the concept of confidentiality
- Self-awareness in terms of assessing own knowledge and competence
- and understanding your own boundaries
- Self-awareness in terms of recognising the impact of your behaviour and other peoples behaviour
- Basic IT knowledge/skills
- Basic standard of education including Maths and English
- Experience of working in a patient care setting or customer facing
- environment
- Healthcare Apprenticeship or equivalent
- Experience of working in a healthcare setting
- Ability to communicate effectively, and demonstrate excellent
- communication skills: verbal, listening & written
- Legible handwriting.
- Be able to demonstrate an understanding of the concept of confidentiality
- Self-awareness in terms of assessing own knowledge and competence
- and understanding your own boundaries
- Self-awareness in terms of recognising the impact of your behaviour and other peoples behaviour
- Basic IT knowledge/skills
Job summary
This post is a great opportunity to make a real difference to patients, acting with care and compassion you will be able to make a positive impact on patients experiences in hospital.
You will work within a team to deliver high quality care to patients.
This is an entry level post which will provide you with invaluable experience to enable you to develop your career in the NHS.
This key role is central to delivering high quality patient care with compassion. The care you provide will make a real difference to patients and their carersand relatives.
In addition to all of the benefits you would expect working for a national NHS Employer, we will also provide you with an extensive induction and on-going development to support you in achieving your career ambitions. We offer a 5 day essential skills course for HCAS. There are also opportunities to develop into a Senior HCA. The HCA role will provide you with the skills, knowledge and experience to pursue a career in nursing if you wish.
Main duties of the job
Your role as a Health Care Assistant (HCA) is to work alongside registered nurse as part of the ward or department team to provide care to patients.
The types of duties include: washing and dressing patients, serving patients meals, assisting with feeding patients when necessary, helping people to mobilise, assisting patients with toileting, bed-making, generally assisting with patients' overall comfort, monitoring patients' conditions by taking temperatures, pulse, respirations and weight.
Acting with compassion you will put patients at the centre of all you do.
You will communicate effectively with patients and their carers.
This role will require you to work variable hours on a rota including nights and weekends.
You will show courage by embracing new ways of working and doing the right thing by the people you care for, including speaking up when you have concerns.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is nearly 6,800 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
Date posted
25 January 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 2
Salary
£22,383 a year
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
6 months
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
C9365-24-0091
Job locations
The Alexandra Hospital
Woodrow Drive
Redditch
Worcestershire
B987UB
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
You will assist with washing and dressing patients, using hoists as appropriate.
You will assist with serving meals and feeding patients, including reporting on their intake and recording on charts as appropriate.
You will assist with toileting, escorting patients to and from the lavatory and recording outputs where necessary.
You will assist with monitoring patients' conditions by taking temperatures, pulse, respirations and weight
You will assist with patients mobilisation, ensuring safe environment and using appropriate techniques.
You will make beds and help to ensure the ward/department is kept clean, tidy and safe.
You will communicate with patients and their relatives with care and compassion.
You will help to ensure that patients are kept comfortable and receive personalised care.
You will be involved in patient booking in / admission, introducing patients to ward / department area as directed by registered nurse.
You will assist with the recording and safe keeping of patients property and valuables.
You will assist the multi professional team to prepare and support patients undergoing treatment and / or investigation maintaining privacy and dignityat all times.
You will safeguard vulnerable adults.
You will report to the nurse in charge of the ward / department matters of concern relating to patients and the ward / department environment.
You will undertake duties outside your working area (e.g. delivery and collection) to assist in maintaining good communication.
You will ensure the privacy and dignity of patients is met at all times.
You will be adaptable and flexible to working in various areas of the department or ward as required.
Job responsibilities
You will assist with washing and dressing patients, using hoists as appropriate.
You will assist with serving meals and feeding patients, including reporting on their intake and recording on charts as appropriate.
You will assist with toileting, escorting patients to and from the lavatory and recording outputs where necessary.
You will assist with monitoring patients' conditions by taking temperatures, pulse, respirations and weight
You will assist with patients mobilisation, ensuring safe environment and using appropriate techniques.
You will make beds and help to ensure the ward/department is kept clean, tidy and safe.
You will communicate with patients and their relatives with care and compassion.
You will help to ensure that patients are kept comfortable and receive personalised care.
You will be involved in patient booking in / admission, introducing patients to ward / department area as directed by registered nurse.
You will assist with the recording and safe keeping of patients property and valuables.
You will assist the multi professional team to prepare and support patients undergoing treatment and / or investigation maintaining privacy and dignityat all times.
You will safeguard vulnerable adults.
You will report to the nurse in charge of the ward / department matters of concern relating to patients and the ward / department environment.
You will undertake duties outside your working area (e.g. delivery and collection) to assist in maintaining good communication.
You will ensure the privacy and dignity of patients is met at all times.
You will be adaptable and flexible to working in various areas of the department or ward as required.
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Additional informationCertificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
The Alexandra Hospital
Woodrow Drive
Redditch
Worcestershire
B987UB
Employer's website
https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
The Alexandra Hospital
Woodrow Drive
Redditch
Worcestershire
B987UB
Employer's website
https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.