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Healthcare Assistant - Outpatients

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Healthcare Assistant - OutpatientsBand 3PermanentPart Time - 30 hours per week

Are you an experienced Band 2 or Band 3 Healthcare Assistant looking for a change and would like to join a dynamic team who make a difference to the patients attending the treatment room service within Fracture clinic here at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust?Do you want to join an organisation that adopts a dynamic approach to ensure high standards of care and clinical excellence is delivered, that is committed to providing training and development opportunities to enable staff to achieve both personal and professional goals: Aintree Site ensuring that patient outcomes are met with the highest care and attention to detail that is evidence based.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a healthcare assistant to join our team within our Treatment Room Service on Fracture Clinic within the Major Trauma and Orthopaedics Directorate. Our team encompasses progressions made within wound care and dressing choice and we strive to make a difference to every patient and their patient journey with us.

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, flexible and enthusiastic individual with varying levels of experience to provide an exceptional health service to all of our patients. In return we will work together to look at educational opportunities that are available to you to develop you and your further career pathway.

Main duties of the job

Under the supervision of a registered nurse assisting the Ward / Department team in providing the highest possible standard of care for patients and their families/carer. The post holder will undertake a range of tasks and duties as delegated by aregistered nurse.

You would be working in the Treatment room alongside other Band 3 and Band 5 nurses completing dressings, seeing patients who have all various wound care requirements.

You would also be completing pre-operative screening of patients: weights/ heights/ MRSA swabs/ bloods.

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf

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Details

Date posted

15 November 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,071 to £25,674 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

287-ASUR-156-24

Job locations

Royal Liverpool Hospital

Prescot Street

Liverpool

L7 8XP


Job description

Job responsibilities

See Job Description for further details.

Assist in

  • Participates in all aspects of patient care with particular attention to personalhygiene and grooming.
  • Provision of patients toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
  • Support of patients in managing incontinence and promotion of continence.
  • The recording of a patients fluid intake and output using fluid balance charts.
  • Preparation and serving of patients meals, drinks and snacks. Assisting /feeding patients as necessary.
  • The recording of patients dietary intake when indicated in the patients plan ofcare.
  • Enable patients to maintain/improve their mobility by use of exercise andmobility appliances.

Job description

Job responsibilities

See Job Description for further details.

Assist in

  • Participates in all aspects of patient care with particular attention to personalhygiene and grooming.
  • Provision of patients toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
  • Support of patients in managing incontinence and promotion of continence.
  • The recording of a patients fluid intake and output using fluid balance charts.
  • Preparation and serving of patients meals, drinks and snacks. Assisting /feeding patients as necessary.
  • The recording of patients dietary intake when indicated in the patients plan ofcare.
  • Enable patients to maintain/improve their mobility by use of exercise andmobility appliances.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Demonstrates a willingness & capability to undertake NVQ level 3

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable experience in hospital setting working at NVQ level 2

Knowledge

Essential

  • Reputation for high standard of patient care

Skills

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the Healthcare setting
  • Basic Computer Skills
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Demonstrates a willingness & capability to undertake NVQ level 3

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable experience in hospital setting working at NVQ level 2

Knowledge

Essential

  • Reputation for high standard of patient care

Skills

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the Healthcare setting
  • Basic Computer Skills

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.

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).

Additional information

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.

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

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Liverpool Hospital

Prescot Street

Liverpool

L7 8XP


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Liverpool Hospital

Prescot Street

Liverpool

L7 8XP


Employer's website

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

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Clinic Manager

Philippa Edwards-Faulkner

philippa.edwards-faulkner@liverpoolft.nhs.uk

01515298448

Details

Date posted

15 November 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,071 to £25,674 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

287-ASUR-156-24

Job locations

Royal Liverpool Hospital

Prescot Street

Liverpool

L7 8XP


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