Community Healthcare Assistant

Job summary

Farnborough Community nursing team are looking to recruit a Health Care Assistant to their team.

We are seeking to recruit someone with previous experience of working in a Hospital/Care Home or Community Nursing team who can provide excellent/effective care to our housebound patient/clients who require our services.

You will need to be an enthusiastic and experienced healthcare assistant, with a warm personality and great people skills.

You will be given additional relevant training to expand your current knowledge base to include community nursing.

Under the delegation of your senior you will be visiting patients in their own homes.

We offer a huge range of learning opportunities and opportunities for career development.

For this role you will need a UK full driving licence with access to a car for visiting patients across the areas we cover.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will :

• Undertake clinical procedures, as delegated by senior staff, such as wound care, wound assessments, pressure area care, venepuncture including capillary INRs, catheter care and observations, for which he/she is accountable for.
• Additionally you will be given training for all nursing care tasks delegated by the senior nurse.
• Provide clinical support / personal support for patients with complex needs, under the direction of senior staff.
• Advise carers and/or patients how to manage care in between visits, and promote health education on an individual basis as directed by senior staff
• To keep up to date with statutory and mandatory training requirements.
• Offer a holistic service to patients and their families, developing where appropriate an on-going plan of care/support, with an emphasis on prevention and self-care
• Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, individualised patient care
• Work with the multi-disciplinary team/ICT, to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care
• Contribute to the ICT achieving its quality targets to sustain the high standards of patient care and service delivery
• Help develop and set up new patient services and participate in initiatives to improve existing patient services
• Be aware of and contribute to planning and delivery of practice-based commissioning

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Farnborough Centre for Health

Apollo Rise

Farnborough

GU14 0NP

Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Farnborough Centre for Health

Apollo Rise

Farnborough

GU14 0NP

Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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