Healthcare Assistant - Open Day - Grimsby

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Make a difference to someone's life - join us as a Healthcare Assistant at Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust.

Our Healthcare Assistants play a vital role in providing excellent care to our patients and are quite often a patients' first point of contact. We believe that excellent patient care is not just about having skills and knowledge, but also demonstrating those softer skills that really help to make our patients feel at ease and comfortable during their time with us.

Caring experience isn't just limited to working in a hospital environment. We understand that the ability to care can come from many different experiences and we recognise those transferable skills that you may have gained caring for a loved one or by holding an NVQ/QCF Level 2 Diploma in Clinical Healthcare Support.

If you can answer yes to the following, then a role as a Healthcare Assistant may be just what you are looking for!

Do you consider yourself:

Caring and kind
Cheerful and friendly
Willing to be hands-on with patients - provide personal care (toileting, washing)
Able to follow instructions and procedures
A good communicator, including listening skills
Good at prioritising and organising

At NLaG we do not require you to have any formal qualifications as you will be supported to achieve these once in post. What we require is enthusiasm to learn, a desire to help safely care for our patients and that you align with our values of Kindness, Courage and Respect.

Main duties of the job

To maintain the highest possible standards of compassionate and professional patient centred care with particular attention to privacy and dignity.
Assist patients with personal care, hygiene and sanitary needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained at all times.
Assist in meeting patients' nutritional needs, including non-oral nutritional and fluid intake. Ensure that patients who require assistance at mealtimes have an appropriately coloured tray to identify they need help and are assisted with eating and drinking.
Where identified in the plan of care, ensure that food and fluid intake and output are accurately documented on appropriate patient charts.
Assist in skin and pressure area care to prevent pressure ulcers developing. Under the supervision of registered nurses, ensure patients are helped to move position to prevent discomfort and / or pressure ulcers developing.
Assist patients with safe mobilisation according to their plan of care and where appropriate seek help from other members of the multidisciplinary team.
Utilise appropriate moving and handling equipment to reduce the risk of injury to the patient and themselves.
Assist in supporting rehabilitation and therapeutic activities for patients as appropriate.
Assist registered nursing staff in the taking and recording of vital signs as per the patient's plan of care.
Communicate any changes in the patient's condition to the nurse / midwife in charge

About us

We have posts across all specialties

HCA roles are recruited to centrally and if you are successful in securing a role after the interview process, you may be placed in a pool whilst your employment checks are being completed and a suitable allocation is being secured for you.

Our Healthcare Assistant (HCA) roles are focused on ensuring that high quality patient centred care is delivered in a safe clinical environment.

We are committed to developing our staff through training and education, supporting you to learn new skills. We have a dedicated Practice Development team focused on ensuring our staff have the right skills to care for our patients, this includes a weeklong induction for new starters where clinical skills are taught and practiced preparing you for your new role. There will be opportunities to develop and gain transferable skills for your future career - which for some may include a pathway into registered nursing.

The majority of ward areas require shift working, which includes days and nights over 7 days, however consideration will be given to requests for more flexible working options.

NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Date posted

10 June 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£22,383 a year pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

208-130-24-1

Job locations

Grimsby

DN33 2BA

Job description

Job responsibilities

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.

For more information about our events, please visit:

https://joinnlag.co.uk/healthcare-assistant/

So, if you like what youve heard so far and would love to find out more about joining us as a Health Care Assistant, then we invite you to attend one of our Recruitment Days.

We are hosting a recruitment day on 26 July at Grimsby. There are 2 sessions taking place:

9:30am Morning Session & 1:00pm Afternoon Session

You can come along and meet our wonderful teams, find out more about the role, and then for those who are interested, they can undertake an interview with our managers. Job offers will be made on the day!

We encourage you to make an application and once the position has closed you will be sent an invite to book onto a session, this will be on a first come first served basis.

If you are an overseas healthcare professional we will not be able to offer you one of the above posts as we are not providing visa sponsorship.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are dedicated to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

When you are completing your application form please ensure that you read the job description and person specification carefully and relate your answers to these.

We encourage all our staff to be innovative and adopt best practice for us to deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values; kindness, courage and respect.

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.

For more information about our events, please visit:

https://joinnlag.co.uk/healthcare-assistant/

So, if you like what youve heard so far and would love to find out more about joining us as a Health Care Assistant, then we invite you to attend one of our Recruitment Days.

We are hosting a recruitment day on 26 July at Grimsby. There are 2 sessions taking place:

9:30am Morning Session & 1:00pm Afternoon Session

We encourage you to make an application and once the position has closed you will be sent an invite to book onto a session, this will be on a first come first served basis.

If you are an overseas healthcare professional we will not be able to offer you one of the above posts as we are not providing visa sponsorship.

When you are completing your application form please ensure that you read the job description and person specification carefully and relate your answers to these.

We encourage all our staff to be innovative and adopt best practice for us to deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values; kindness, courage and respect.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

oBasic literacy and numeracy skills

Desirable

oAn NVQ/QCF Level 2 Diploma in Clinical Healthcare Support or a commitment to undertaking and successfully completing available training and education once in post and within an agreed timeframe.
oIT skills
oHas undertaken some recent study
oLevel 2 in English and Mathematics or equivalent

Occupational Experience

Essential

oUnderstanding of the needs of patients in a care setting
oHas a sound understanding of the need for confidentiality
oConfident people skills

Desirable

oExperience of working in a care setting or transferable skills, demonstrable keenness and passion for the role
oWorking in a team

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

oBasic literacy and numeracy skills

Desirable

oAn NVQ/QCF Level 2 Diploma in Clinical Healthcare Support or a commitment to undertaking and successfully completing available training and education once in post and within an agreed timeframe.
oIT skills
oHas undertaken some recent study
oLevel 2 in English and Mathematics or equivalent

Occupational Experience

Essential

oUnderstanding of the needs of patients in a care setting
oHas a sound understanding of the need for confidentiality
oConfident people skills

Desirable

oExperience of working in a care setting or transferable skills, demonstrable keenness and passion for the role
oWorking in a team

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.