Bank Community Health Care Assistant

Job summary

From 1st July 2020 Procare Community Services are providing adult community nursing services through a partnership venture with The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust.

We are seeking Bank Community Health Care Assistants to support an efficient, effective, and quality adult community Night nursing service in Guildford and Waverley. You will deliver delegated health care activities working alongside a Registered Nurse including wound care, Palliative care and catheter care to people in their homes.

Procare offer Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions and NHS Pension. Procare are committed to supporting the development of all employees to their full potential and all employees working within the Procare Community Services adult community nursing service will additionally have access to the staff benefits, learning and development opportunities offered by the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to work alongside a registered nurse overnight in the community setting, delivering nursing care to people in their own homes. This post holder will need to ensure that all relevant policy, protocols, guidelines, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are followed.

You will be a good communicator, calm and have a professional manner. You will be able to work methodically and independently whilst being a good team player. The post holder will need to be able to use technology to record patient visits and be able to travel to patients homes frequently throughout the night across the locality and across Guildford and Waverley. You will need to be willing to undertake the health care assistant certificate as required.

About us

The Procare Chief Executive and two medical directors are local GPs, our Nurse Director has considerable community experience, and our Director of Compliance has recently completed Return to Nursing. Our clinically led board ensures that Procare has the experience and knowledge base from which to build sustainable integrated services.

With high quality care, patient safety and a positive patient and carer experience at the centre of our strategy, our aim is to ensure high quality care for our local community, through being a great place to work with a highly skilled and competent workforce.

We are an innovative, ambitious, friendly, and supportive local team and pride ourselves in a clinically led and flat management structure that ensures good visibility of all directors. We are seeking someone with all the right skills and attributes, who is pragmatic, and solution focused and wants be part of our local revolution in Community Nursing Services.