Healthcare Assistant - Crewe, United Kingdom - Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Crewe, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Are you looking for an exciting challenge with learning opportunities? Are you a highly motivated and dynamic individual? A very exciting opportunity has arisen within Surgery & Cancer for a Health Care Assistant based on Ward 1- Orthopaedic Trauma.

We are looking for people who are passionate about delivering high standards of nursing care to ensure a positive patient experience.

You need to have excellent communication skills and be prepared to work in a busy and sometimes challenging environment which will be in turn rewarding and exciting

Surgery and Cancer are looking for committed, compassionate and enthusiastic Healthcare Assistants to join our busy division.

The role of a Healthcare Assistant is that of a support worker who carries out a wide range of care duties directly with the patient, their relatives/carers or to support the work of the nursing team.

Health care duties are carried out, after training, under the direction of a professionally qualified practitioner and can include the following tasks:
helping patients to wash or shower
- serving food and, if necessary, helping patients to eat
- making and changing beds
- turning patients who are confined to bed to avoid pressure sores
- talking with patients to help them feel less lonely or anxious
- helping patients with mobility problems to move around
- giving out and collecting bedpans, helping patients to the toilet and removal of human waste

(Please note the above list is not exhaustive)

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond.

The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.

Healthcare work is very rewarding. You are making a positive difference to the lives of others when they are at their most vulnerable.

Other benefits include:
You'll have access to high quality training and national qualifications e.g. the care certificate

All Healthcare Assistants receive generous shift pay enhancements for nights, weekends and bank holidays which significantly increases basic pay rates

Holiday pay starts at 27 days' annual leave per year (increasing to 33 after 10 years), plus bank holidays

You will have access to a gold standard pension scheme

You will have access to NHS discounts across hundreds of shops, restaurants & services (Morrisons, Nando's etc.)

Excellent career development opportunities are available e.g. access to Nurse training and apprenticeships