Job summary
Are you an experience Health Care Assistant with community experience that is motivated and is passionate about supporting patients in their own home?
Are you a team player with proven planning and organisational skills?
Then join our dynamic and forward thinking integrated nursing team and make an important contribution to the delivery of high standards of care to patients, their families and carers within the South East Essex locality of Hockley, Rochford and Rayleigh locality.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all of our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately your application form be rejected from the process.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will provide clinical support in order to prevent patients having unnecessary hospital admissions, enabling them to stay at home where possible and work with wider integrated community teams to facilitate and support patients in their own home.
You will work within a dynamic team lead by a District Nurse. Hockley District Nursing Team have won an award for their innovative care to patients in the community and strive to continue providing the best quality of care.
Applications are welcomed from HCA's with a minimum of 1 years community/hospital experience or who hold an Associate Practitioner qualification.
Various shifts 8am-9pm Mon-Sun
Excellent opportunities to progress in nursing career from Nursing Associate or Associate Practitioner courses which lead onto the Nursing Degree.
About us
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
o Season Ticket Loans
o NHS discounts for staff
o Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
o Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
o The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
o Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
o Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
Join our Staff bank
What is Staff Bank?
Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To support the work of the registered practitioners in the community nursing team.
Maintain excellent communication with patients, relatives and members of the team and multi-professionals, demonstrating a variety in communication skills in accordance with patient needs.
To perform area specific clinical competencies such as:
- Health promotion
- Female and male catheterisation
- Intramuscular injections
- Parental feeding management
- Administration of enemas and provision of advice re: bowel care
- Wound care e.g. complex wound care as delegated by the registered practitioner
The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together key health, care, community, and voluntary sector organisations from across our area. Our aim is to work together in partnership to join up health and care services, improving our populations health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. One such example of this collaborative work is the launch of our HCA Academy, an ICS initiative between Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) and Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT) to support the incoming Health Care assistant (HCA) workforce. The academy models a one workforce cross system approach to the onboarding, induction, education and experience of Healthcare Assistants.
To support this one workforce model the successful candidate for this post will be required to attend our5 day (Monday to Friday) face to face Induction Programme at our MSE ICS Education Hub at Brentwood Community Hospital. Your start date will therefore fall on one of two of the HCA Academy induction dates across the month, which will be discussed and agreed during the recruitment process.
Our HCA Academy Induction programme has been designed to train and support the successful candidate through the early stages of their employment at EPUT and will provide opportunities to enhance skills, knowledge and experience.
Further information will be provided post interview.
This will be followed by an additional 5 day (Monday to Friday) EPUT corporate / mandatory training welcome. (EPUT Welcome will be varied between face to face and virtual delivery).
Job description
Job responsibilities
To support the work of the registered practitioners in the community nursing team.
Maintain excellent communication with patients, relatives and members of the team and multi-professionals, demonstrating a variety in communication skills in accordance with patient needs.
To perform area specific clinical competencies such as:
- Health promotion
- Female and male catheterisation
- Intramuscular injections
- Parental feeding management
- Administration of enemas and provision of advice re: bowel care
- Wound care e.g. complex wound care as delegated by the registered practitioner
The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together key health, care, community, and voluntary sector organisations from across our area. Our aim is to work together in partnership to join up health and care services, improving our populations health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. One such example of this collaborative work is the launch of our HCA Academy, an ICS initiative between Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) and Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT) to support the incoming Health Care assistant (HCA) workforce. The academy models a one workforce cross system approach to the onboarding, induction, education and experience of Healthcare Assistants.
To support this one workforce model the successful candidate for this post will be required to attend our5 day (Monday to Friday) face to face Induction Programme at our MSE ICS Education Hub at Brentwood Community Hospital. Your start date will therefore fall on one of two of the HCA Academy induction dates across the month, which will be discussed and agreed during the recruitment process.
Our HCA Academy Induction programme has been designed to train and support the successful candidate through the early stages of their employment at EPUT and will provide opportunities to enhance skills, knowledge and experience.
Further information will be provided post interview.
This will be followed by an additional 5 day (Monday to Friday) EPUT corporate / mandatory training welcome. (EPUT Welcome will be varied between face to face and virtual delivery).
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 1 years experience
Desirable
Skills
Essential
- Driving with access to car
Desirable
- Associate practitioner qualification
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 1 years experience
Desirable
Skills
Essential
- Driving with access to car
Desirable
- Associate practitioner qualification
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.
