Job summary
There's an opening for a full-time Band 3 Healthcare Assistant on Ward 39, a busy 26-bed mixed-sex Cardiology/Cardiothoracic ward.
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An NVQ qualification or care certificate/or equivalent is an essential requirement to apply for this role.
This job vacancy may close early.
We provide top-quality care for patients undergoing cardiac and thoracic surgery, including those stepping down from CITU, CCU, A&E, as well as elective. This is a shift-based role with ongoing internal rotation, and you'll be expected to work weekends, bank holidays, and occasional late finishes.
Successful candidates will receive support from both our nursing and medical teams, along with all the essential training needed for the role.
You'll need to communicate well with a variety of healthcare professionals and bring enthusiasm and passion for delivering top-quality care. As a healthcare assistant, you'll help patients with daily tasks like maintaining good nutrition, supporting personal hygiene, and accompanying them to procedures, while also assisting the medical and nursing teams with treatments. Alongside providing essential nursing care, you'll be expected to learn clinical skills such as taking observations and performing venepuncture (drawing blood samples). Full training for these skills will be provided the Trust.
Main duties of the job
Providing high-quality, timely care to all patients while working closely with MDT colleagues. Duties include theatre preparation, transporting patients for investigations, offering personal care, assisting with nutrition and hydration, ensuring a safe environment, and monitoring high-risk patients.
You need to have excellent communication skills, as our patients are often complex and require you to be patient and understanding.You will be required to liaise with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure patient needs are identified and communicated effectively so that safe decisions are made around patient care.
You will be expected to maintain high standards of nursing care under the supervision of a Registered Nurse and be personally responsible for your actions following the Trust's Policies and Procedures. You will be required to support the safe admission, transfer and discharges of patients and be pro-active in the timely support provided to patients at all times.
You will be expected to maintain accurate written and/or electronic records ensuring all legal requirements are met.
You'll be encouraged and supported to develop new skills, take an active role in driving improvements, and champion a care area that interests you. You should also be committed to ongoing professional development and able to show evidence of your progress.
You will need to be prepared to work flexibly to the needs of the service.
About us
Working for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will provide you with lots of opportunity to develop your skills and further your career. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre and North Lancashire.
We are proud of the care we strive to provide, and we want to continue to build on this by the addition of passionate, kind and caring people to our teams. Using the latest pathways, evidence-based care and, using all the community therapy support networks available to us to give every patient the best opportunity to remain independent, safe and supported. We are looking for people who strongly align with our Trust values and share common goals.
As a Trust we are committed to:
- Developing new roles and ways of working to ensure a flexible and innovative approach to staff.
- Real equality of opportunity.
- Continuous learning and development for staff.
- Achieving a work life balance
We are committed to the effective recruitment, retention and development for our employees, which is why we offer a great working environment, an attractive range of benefits and excellent opportunities for training and development.
The Trust is accredited as a Disability Confident employer. That means we recognise our obligations to ensure people with disabilities are afforded equal opportunity to enter employment and progress if and where possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the Job Description and main responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description.
Please also read the attached Person Specification to ensure you have the relevant criteria for the post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the Job Description and main responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description.
Please also read the attached Person Specification to ensure you have the relevant criteria for the post.
Person Specification
Education and qualifications
Essential
- Care certificate is essential or be willing to work towards completing on successful appointment to the post.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and/or experience of care and related procedures.
- Experience with manual handling of patients, using moving aids
- Experience of completing patient care records
Desirable
- Experience and involvement of an improvement project/s
- Experience of holding an area of responsibility relating to training/audit
Skills, ability and knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and/or experience of personal care and related procedures
- Able to accurately update patient records for care delivered including changes to patient condition.
- Ability to communicate factual information clearly and effectively with tact and empathy overcoming barriers to communication such as physical impairments or mental health/learning disabilities
- Ability to carry out routine duties acting on own initiative with limited supervision.
- Ability to work as part of a team, as well as on own initiative with access to supervision.
- Understands confidentiality
- Ability to follow Trust policy's relevant to the role.
- Be able to participate in audits that are relevant to the role.
- Ability to use IT skills proficiently on using relevant IT systems.
- Ability to deliver (with appropriate training and competency assessment) a range of clinical/technical skills and care duties such as (but not limited to): clinical observations, blood glucose monitoring, ECG's, simple wound dressings.
- Able to supervise others e.g. T- level students, new B3 HCA's, Band 2 HCA's
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Caring, Adaptable to the changing needs of the service, Self-motivated, Enthusiastic, Approachable, Diplomatic, Innovative, Flexible, Responsible and accountable
Person Specification
Education and qualifications
Essential
- Care certificate is essential or be willing to work towards completing on successful appointment to the post.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and/or experience of care and related procedures.
- Experience with manual handling of patients, using moving aids
- Experience of completing patient care records
Desirable
- Experience and involvement of an improvement project/s
- Experience of holding an area of responsibility relating to training/audit
Skills, ability and knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and/or experience of personal care and related procedures
- Able to accurately update patient records for care delivered including changes to patient condition.
- Ability to communicate factual information clearly and effectively with tact and empathy overcoming barriers to communication such as physical impairments or mental health/learning disabilities
- Ability to carry out routine duties acting on own initiative with limited supervision.
- Ability to work as part of a team, as well as on own initiative with access to supervision.
- Understands confidentiality
- Ability to follow Trust policy's relevant to the role.
- Be able to participate in audits that are relevant to the role.
- Ability to use IT skills proficiently on using relevant IT systems.
- Ability to deliver (with appropriate training and competency assessment) a range of clinical/technical skills and care duties such as (but not limited to): clinical observations, blood glucose monitoring, ECG's, simple wound dressings.
- Able to supervise others e.g. T- level students, new B3 HCA's, Band 2 HCA's
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Caring, Adaptable to the changing needs of the service, Self-motivated, Enthusiastic, Approachable, Diplomatic, Innovative, Flexible, Responsible and accountable
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.
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.
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).
