Healthcare Assistant (Wound Care Service) - Band 3

Job summary

Healthcare Assistant Wound Care Service - Band 3

Full time (part time hours will not be considered)

Would you like to be part of a team dedicated to improving the care and treatment outcomes across a wide range of patients whilst continuing to develop specialist skills in wound care?

We currently have vacancies within our Wound Healing Service. We are a specialist Wound Service focusing on hard to heal wounds, working with each patient on realistic goals, depending on their wound healing potential.

We deliver advanced wound healing treatments within patients own home or residential/nursing home and within a clinic setting for ambulatory patients. We also work alongside practice nurses, community nurses and nursing homes offering variety to the role with imparting wound care knowledge across the community.

This role is a rotational post across the 2 areas of the service, wound healing clinics and community wound healing team.

The Out of Hospital Wound Healing Service is dedicated to making a difference to patients lives and providing a positive experience in wound healing. If you are an innovative and forward-thinking wound care clinician who is ready to take on a clinical role supporting the management management of complex wounds, then this post is for you!

Travel across the city for this role is essential alongside a degree of physical ability due to moving and handling requirements within clinic and community setting.

Main duties of the job

Our working hours are usually Monday - Friday between the hours of 08:30- 17:00 on a flexible basis to meet the needs of the patient. You may however be required to work outside of these hours. Car owner and driver is essential.

You will be supported by a robust nursing leadership and management team, where an inclusive culture adds value to service provision, and where quality improvement is encouraged to drive effective patient care.

This role will be the perfect opportunity for you to develop your passion for wound care and health promotion skills.

Our Trust vision and values make CWPT a Great Place to work, to care and be cared for. In support of your application we are interested to understand about the impact your qualities, skills and experience will make, both to patient care and the team you will lead. We want to learn how your values shine through to personify this and how your potential to lead and make a real difference can be embedded into our services

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For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support groups

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.