Healthcare Assistant - Leopard Ward

Job overview

Are you looking to join a team who are passionate about caring for children and young people? Do you want to develop within an exciting speciality providing world class, cutting-edge treatment?

Leopard Ward cares for patients with acute and chronic respiratory disease. We see a wide variety of different patients which include those with cystic fibrosis, those requiring long term and non-invasive ventilation.

As a Healthcare Assistant in our team, you will play an integral part in ensuring patients are provided with a healthy, safe and secure environment. With the support of the wider nursing team, you will have a mixture of daily duties some which will be supervised and some autonomous.

You will have the chance to develop and enhance your patient care skills through an established educational programme (including comprehensive specialist workbooks linked to tracheostomies, ventilation, and nasopharyngeal airways), which will enable you to provide a high standard of holistic family centred care to children, young people and their families.

With progression through training and experience you will also be involved in caring for children and young people who have tracheostomies, ventilated and with nasopharyngeal airways.

Main duties of the job

• To work as a member of the healthcare team, to provide a high standard of holistic family centred care to the children, young people and families
• To work within agreed ways of working, under indirect supervision of a registered health care professional (usually a Registered Nurse), following relevant standards, policies and protocols and always acting within the limits of your training and competence.
• Ability to promote family centred care and establish good relationships with children, young people and their families.
• To demonstrate effective communication skills.
• To carry out clinical and non-clinical duties on the ward in line with the relevant standards, policies and protocols as required.
• To follow and demonstrate the Trust Values, Expected Behaviours and Core Values of Compassion in Practice (NHS Commissioning Board Dec 2012), and adhere to the GOSH Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers (2013).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.