Senior Healthcare Assistant (Learning Disability Replacement Care)

Job summary

Main duties of the job

This role will include admitting and discharging service users and their belongings. Regular communications with families and other professionals involved in their care such as day centre staff, college staff, GP, and Community Learning Disability Nurses. In the absence of the qualified nurse in the bungalow, you will be responsible for leading the shift, although a qualified nurse will be on site, in another bungalow. You will be required to make beds, do daily tasks such as wash bedding, clothes, shop for food, prepare meals and support service users with meals. You will be required to deliver the highest standards and quality outcomes possible, ensuring that the service user is at the heart of your care and decisions.

This is a hands-on role, and you will be required to support service users with personal care tasks and moving and handling aspects of care alongside medicines management. You will be required to administer medication and carry out specific clinical interventions. We are a supportive, passionate, and motivated team and reflect on the care we provide regularly to improve the care we provide to service users. You will be supported to deliver person centred care which involves regular reviews with families, ensuring the needs of the induvial are at the heart of the care provided. You will be required to complete Medicines Management training and dispense/administer medications to service users under the direction of the Qualified Nurse on shift.

Job responsibilities

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer;

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

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