Senior Healthcare Assistant - Acute Assessment Unit

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Are you looking for a motivating and rewarding career? Do you thrive on a challenge and want to make a difference to our patients in Lancashire Teaching Hospitals?

You will need to be flexible in your working hours to work shifts/unsocial hours including nights as required. Excellent communication skills are essential in this role as well as a passion for delivering excellent care with compassion.

Joining our AAU team is a unique experience unlike any other. Each day presents new challenges and opportunities. We collaborate closely with the Emergency Department (ED) on a daily basis, receiving external patients referred by GPs. These patients require continuous observation, adhering to national guidelines with checks every 30 minutes.

Join our team where each day is filled with new experiences and opportunities for growth!

If you are interested in this position, we would love to hear from you

Please send over your Maths and English GCSE's Grade C or above and your NVQ Level 2 in Healthcare to recruit.medicine@lthtr.nhs.uk

Main duties of the job

With over 10 patient turnovers daily, your role will involve managing admissions, discharges, completing paperwork, recording vital signs like weights, blood pressure, and blood sugars, assisting during meal times, and ensuring patients plan their menu for the next day.

On our dynamic ward, you'll engage in diverse tasks such as aiding with Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), patient monitoring, conducting skin checks and pressure sore assessments, and coordinating with specialist nurses like the tissue viability nurse. You'll also accompany patients for scans and x-rays, and maintain cleanliness in our care environment.

Effective communication skills are crucial as you'll collaborate closely with nursing staff daily. Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to learn and assist with procedures like venepuncture and cannulations through our training programs. If you're eager to advance in your nursing career, we offer pathways to further education and nurse training courses.

About us

We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Date posted

30 April 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£22,816 to £24,336 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

438-PB1591

Job locations

Preston

PR2 9HT

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties will include, but not be limited to:

Provide good quality personalised care in accordance with agreed local and national standards.
Take samples from patients for testing or dispatching eg: Urine, sputum, faeces, MRSA swabs, blood sugars.
Assist patients to meet nutritional needs in line with their individual care plan
Undertake clinical duties relevant to clinical area following achievement of competencies.
Assist to maintain patient safety, conforming to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures, and guidelines.
Assist in maintaining standards of care to improve the patient experience and outcome of care.
Promote equality in care and practice by recognising, respecting, and meeting the needs and choices of individuals.
Contribute to maintaining safe, clean, and productive care environment, compliant with standards for hygiene and cleanliness.
Maintain and develop own competence.

Actively try to resolve issues and complaints at local level and then report the outcome to line manager.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties will include, but not be limited to:

Provide good quality personalised care in accordance with agreed local and national standards.
Take samples from patients for testing or dispatching eg: Urine, sputum, faeces, MRSA swabs, blood sugars.
Assist patients to meet nutritional needs in line with their individual care plan
Undertake clinical duties relevant to clinical area following achievement of competencies.
Assist to maintain patient safety, conforming to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures, and guidelines.
Assist in maintaining standards of care to improve the patient experience and outcome of care.
Promote equality in care and practice by recognising, respecting, and meeting the needs and choices of individuals.
Contribute to maintaining safe, clean, and productive care environment, compliant with standards for hygiene and cleanliness.
Maintain and develop own competence.

Actively try to resolve issues and complaints at local level and then report the outcome to line manager.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential

GCSE Maths & English grade C or above / Grade 4 - 9 or Functional/Key skills level 2 numeracy and Functional/Key Skills level 2 literacy
BNCS or NVQ / Internal Level 2 training programme
Must be willing to undertake and complete Trust internal Level 3 training programme course asap

Desirable

Level 3 QCF diploma (Qualification Credit Framework) in healthcare / NVQ level 3

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

Previous experience of working in an acute health care or related setting
Understanding of health and safety issues within healthcare
Understanding of concept and application of confidentiality
Understanding of the role of a senior HCA

Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential

GCSE Maths & English grade C or above / Grade 4 - 9 or Functional/Key skills level 2 numeracy and Functional/Key Skills level 2 literacy
BNCS or NVQ / Internal Level 2 training programme
Must be willing to undertake and complete Trust internal Level 3 training programme course asap

Desirable

Level 3 QCF diploma (Qualification Credit Framework) in healthcare / NVQ level 3

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

Previous experience of working in an acute health care or related setting
Understanding of health and safety issues within healthcare
Understanding of concept and application of confidentiality
Understanding of the role of a senior HCA

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.