Senior Healthcare Assistant - Preston, United Kingdom - Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Preston, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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Are you a caring and compassionate individual looking for a new and exciting challenge? Do you want to gain skills that you cannot achieve at your current work place? If the answer is yes to either of these then we want to hear from you Ward 3 currently has vacancies for Band 3 Healthcare Assistants to work on their busy ward.

Ward 3 requires a forward thinking, well organised individual with a positive attitude towards flexibility and change.

In addition to development in clinical skills, you will also have the opportunity to achieve extended skills in venepuncture and enteral feeding, competencies that you may not be allowed to achieve on other wards within the trust.

The ward operates a 12 hour shift pattern therefore, you will be expected to be flexible, working 12 hour shifts over 7 days a week.

Ward 3 currently houses 14 Elective Green beds for multispecialty post-operative surgical patients. This includes caring for wide variety of specialities including plastic, colorectal, urology, vascular, neuro, ENT and Max Fax patients. The ward predominately specialises in ENT and Max Fax procedures.

As a multispecialty ward you will be expected to liaise with all members of the wider Multi-Disciplinary Team in order to provide a joined up service.

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients.

Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.


Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.


You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done.

You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things.

Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.


  • Provide good quality personalised care in accordance with agreed local and national standards.
  • Take samples from patients for testing or dispatching eg: Urine, sputum, faeces, MRSA swabs, blood sugars
  • Undertake clinical duties relevant to clinical area following achievement of competencies.
  • Contribute to maintaining safe, clean, and productive care environment, compliant with standards for hygiene and cleanliness.
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