Healthcare Assistant Acute Short Stay-Ward 5- Scunthorpe

Job overview

Make a difference to someone’s life – join Ward 5 Acute Short Stay Scunthorpe General Hospital as Healthcare Assistant.

Our Healthcare Assistants play a vital role in providing excellent care to our patients and are quite often a patients’ first point of contact.  We believe that excellent patient care is not just about having skills and knowledge, but also demonstrating those softer skills that really help to make our patients feel at ease and comfortable during their time with us.

Caring experience isn’t just limited to working in a hospital environment.

We understand that the ability to care can come from many different experiences and we recognise those transferable skills that you may have gained caring for a loved one or by holding an NVQ/QCF Level 2 Diploma in Clinical Healthcare Support.

If you can answer yes to the following, then a role as a Healthcare Assistant may be just what you are looking for!

Do you consider yourself:

• Caring and kind
• Cheerful and friendly
• Willing to be hands-on with patients – provide personal care (toileting, washing)
• Able to follow instructions and procedures
• A good communicator, including listening skills
• Good at prioritising and organising

At NLaG we do not require you to have any formal qualifications as you will be supported to achieve these once in post.  What we require is enthusiasm to learn, a desire to help safely care for our patients and that you align with our values.

Main duties of the job

• To maintain the highest possible standards of compassionate and professional patient centred care with particular attention to privacy and dignity.
• Assist patients with personal care, hygiene and sanitary needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained at all times.
• Assist in meeting patients’ nutritional needs, including non-oral nutritional and fluid intake. Ensure that patients who require assistance at mealtimes have an appropriately coloured tray to identify they need help and are assisted with eating and drinking.
• Where identified in the plan of care, ensure that food and fluid intake and output are accurately documented on appropriate patient charts.
• Assist in skin and pressure area care to prevent pressure ulcers developing. Under the supervision of registered nurses, ensure patients are helped to move position to prevent discomfort and / or pressure ulcers developing.
• Assist patients with safe mobilisation according to their plan of care and where appropriate seek help from other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Utilise appropriate moving and handling equipment to reduce the risk of injury to the patient and themselves.
• Assist in supporting rehabilitation and therapeutic activities for patients as appropriate.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.  We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/

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Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.