Healthcare Assistant - Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom - Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
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Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Are you able to perform a wide range of duties to deliver best possible care for patients? Do you want to work with a team where your suggestions will help improve the delivery of care to patients and service users?


If you do, we would like to hear from you - as we are currently looking for compassionate and motivated Healthcare Assistants to join our Chalkwell Ward team.


Our friendly Chalkwell Ward team provides care for patients with complex medical and social issues, specialising in patients with Dementia and patients at the end of life.

You will get the chance to work closely with the patients and their families to give a high standard of care, working with many specialities and enable a seamless journey for the patient from admission to discharge.


As a Healthcare Assistant, you will work as part of the multi-disciplinary team within the ward or department, to provide high-quality care to patients under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse.


You will be expected to undertake patient care, under supervision, and working within the Trust's policies and procedures, to meet the needs of the patients.

You will be a trusted voice in your role and will be part of changing and improving the way we care across MSE.

You will get the chance to develop your own skills and knowledge of nursing tasks and progress in your career in line with the Trusts career pathway


Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.


We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.


From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be.

Yes, experience is important but so is outlook - if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.


We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.


Below are some of the main responsibilities that you will undertake, but for full role details and responsibilities please look at the attached job description.


You will work as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team to help plan, organise, and facilitate a comprehensive range of individualised, group and one to one activity for the patients the ward.


You will help promote and encourage appropriate, individualised level of patient participation and facilitate patients' activities that promote social interaction, self-esteem and help maintain or enhance functional ability.


You will support the multi-disciplinary team in the assessment of patients as well as the ward nursing team to promote the patient's mental and physical well-being.

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