Healthcare Assistant

Job overview

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This is an exciting opportunity to join the Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust Treatment Room service in the Greater Preston and Chorley South Ribble areas. If you are able to work autonomously, you are motivated, hardworking and enthusiastic then come and join our team of dedicated treatment room nurses.

The Treatment Room service currently operates from Monday to Friday excluding weekends and bank holidays. We are an appointment only service between the hours of 08.30 and 16.30 however we do hold 2 late evening clinics (up to 8pm) and one early clinic (8am start) once a week. Applicants must be willing to work flexibly over 5 days, be able to work well within a team and on their own initiative.

Main duties of the job

• Provide a high standard of clinical and nursing care within the treatment room setting, including nurse-led services.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care; undertake extended roles appropriate to treatment room services.
• Provide care for patients with acute and chronic wounds, perform post-operative wound care, remove sutures and clips, assist with lower limb assessments, compression bandaging and ear irrigation.
• Participate in a range of clinical and service audits within treatment room and comply with all policies and protocols relating to treatment room.
• Assist in delivering objectives set out within the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust business plan. Qualifications and Skills
• Committed, compassionate and patient-centered approach with the patient at the heart of everything you do.
• Ability to work flexibly over 5 days and to work well within a team and on own initiative.
• Experience in treating patients through wound care and related treatment room procedures is desirable.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.