Integrated Care Assistant

Job overview

Due to our new model exciting opportunities on Thorndon Ward at Brentwood Community Hospital, Mayfield Unit at Thurrock Community Hospital and Mountnessing Court at Billericay has arisen for dynamic, innovative and motivated full-time Integrated Care Assistants (ICA's).

All 3 of our Inpatient sites are located in Essex within easy reach of transport links and are a clean and comfortable environment with a friendly-family atmosphere which gets positively noticed by our patients and their relatives.  The hospitals all have pleasant garden eating areas and ample free parking spaces.

The role involves supporting the Inpatient nurses to provide a high standard of nursing for rehabilitation patients. The successful candidate will work under the supervision of a registered nurse and will develop and undertake a range of delegated tasks independently. They will also assume responsibility for their workload ensuring that they adhere to North East London Foundation Trusts policies and Local policies.

Do you have high standards and want to make a difference? If so, then we are looking for you to join our friendly team.

Main duties of the job

You will administer holistic care to patients in the rehabilitation inpatient setting, identifying and reporting any changes in patient care needs to the nursing staff. The post holder will work as a member of the integrated health and social care team to ensure high quality nursing service provision.

You will demonstrate flexibility, good communication skills, and ability to work as a team member as well as using your own initiative. This is an excellent opportunity to further develop your clinical skills. Post holders must have an NVQ 3 in Health and Social Care / Care certificate and demonstrate a commitment to further learning and development.

NELFT has a multicultural and ethnically diverse population which offers a high spectrum of health care challenges which can be both complex and rewarding.  We are committed to providing a culture of continuous learning (internal and external training), which actively supports the professional and personal development of our staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• To be responsible for organising and prioritising own delegated workload.
• To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.
• To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
• To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
• To plan and organise own delegated work.
• To identify and report any changes in patient care needs or changes in physical or emotional well-being to the MDT leads.
• To maintain accurate records-record new problems as they are identified and report all actions taken to the MDT.
• To act as the patient’s advocate and, by providing information and support, facilitate the patients own choices with regard to personal care, promoting independence and self-care as appropriate.
• To be skilled in communication, establishing and maintaining good relationship with patients, carers, members of the MDT.
• To maintain, update and develop personal, professional knowledge and skills achieving high standards of patient care at all times.
• To undertake specific nursing and therapy tasks following completion of theoretical training acquisition of competency.
• To maintain confidentiality in all dealings with patients and their records.
• To offer support and to teach patients, relatives and other carer’s appropriate skills, imparting knowledge to promote positive health.
• To have knowledge of and be able to effectively use available resources.
• To participate in the support of student nurses and new staff in the locality.
• To undertake training, this will lead to new skills being developed, in order to develop

See attached job description and person specification for more details.

Please note: When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High Cost Area Supplement) is not included for non-registered roles. This ensures fairness and consistency within our organisation, as some of our sites fall under inner HCAS, while others are classified as outer HCAS, or none.

Due to government threshold guidelines the trust is unable to provide sponsorship for this role.

Use of AI Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.