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    Assistant Health care worker - Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom - Wales Medicines Strategy Group

    Wales Medicines Strategy Group
    Wales Medicines Strategy Group Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom

    1 week ago

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    Main area Nursing Grade Band 3 Contract Fixed term: 12 months Hours Full time hours per week (Days/ nights/ weekends/ bank holidays) Job ref 438-PB1635
    Employer Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Town Preston/Chorley Salary £22,816 - £24,336 Per Annum/Pro Rata for part time Salary period Yearly Closing 12/05/2024 23:59 Interview date 22/05/2024

    Join our dynamic and inclusive elective surgery ward as a Senior Healthcare Assistant where you will have the chance to learn, grow, and thrive.

    Rest assured, you will make a significant impact on our patients every single day, fostering a sense of pride and value in your work.

    Ward 11 is a very busy elective surgical ward and our patients need our care and attention 24 hours a day 7 days a week, so everyone gets involved working different shifts to ensure our patients receive the very best care with compassion.

    Typically, Ward 11 undertakes a day or night shift:
    07:00-19:30 & 19:00-07:30.

    As a Senior Healthcare Assistant, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the quality of life for our patients and residents.

    You will be entrusted with delivering personalised care to patients and performing a spectrum of clinical duties under the guidance of the team leader/nurse in charge.

    From assisting with personal hygiene and toileting to catheter and stoma care, your responsibilities will encompass a diverse range of essential tasks.

    You must have a willingness to undertake further training E.G. phlebotomy, ECG recording to support the team in the management of patients with acute surgical conditions.

    We recognise that our staff are our most valuable resource, and we are proud of the excellent levels of service our team provides to our service users and the dedication and professionalism of our staff.

    If you have always aspired to work in your local hospital caring for our patients and working alongside highly motivated teams, then you are going to love this role.

    We will invest such a lot in you and your development by supporting you, ensuring you stay up to date with all clinical competencies & from day one you will be supported to achieve further qualifications in healthcare if that's what you want to do, as well as meet the government standards for care within the NHS.

    Our initial Care Certificate training is 3 weeks long & full time as there is so much to cram into the time, so you will need to ensure you can attend this, as you cannot start on the Wards without completion of the course.

    You will 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.

    Whilst personal care will form a large part of your role, you will also take samples from our patients for testing or dispatching, you'll undertake clinical duties relevant to Ward 11 , such as monitoring patients' vital signs, accurately calculating Early Warning Scores, recognising signs of unwell Patients, and escalating in a timely manner.

    Patient safety is in the essence of everything that we do here at the Trust, so maintaining a certain standard of care is so important.

    GCSE Maths & English grade C or above / Grade - 9 OR Functional/Key skills level 2 numeracy and Functional/Key Skills level 2 literacy
    BNCS or NVQ / Internal Level 2 training programme Must be willing to undertake Trust internal Level 3 training programme course
    Level 3 QCF diploma (Qualification Credit Framework) in healthcare / NVQ level 3
    Must be willing to undertake Trust internal Level 3 training programme course.

    Previous experience of working in an acute health care or related setting
    Understanding of health and safety issues within healthcare
    Understanding of the role of a band 3 senior HCA

    We'll contact you by e-mail to update you on the progress of your application so please check the e-mail account that you applied from (including spam/junk) regularly.

    We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve.

    All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post.

    Our Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders is available Here

    To help you get the best from your application we've also put together two guides to help you make your application the best it can be.

    We are reminded everyday of how important life is, so as part of our Working Smarter pledge we offer a variety of flexible working options and wellbeing support to enable our people to find and maintain the right work-life balance.

    Also please ensure you have read the LTHTR Secondment Policy. Please note a young person must be in part-time education or training until they're 18.

    therefore if you are under 18 we are unable to employ you on a full time basis, unless it is in an apprenticeship role.

    In line with guidance from United Kingdom Health Security Agency, all staff and volunteers are required to comply with Trust Infection Prevention and Control processes in relation to safe working.

    This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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