Health Care Assistant - Stockport, United Kingdom - Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

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Stockport, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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As a Healthcare Assistant you will have a vital role in delivering hands-on care to patients including supporting patient with their personal hygiene needs and assisting them during meal time.

You will also help in recording intake and output chart, checking of blood glucose pre meals.

Monitoring patients and performing basic health check, making patients feel comfortable. Washing and dressing patients,. Serving meals and help to feed patients. Ability to work well with others.

As a healthcare assistant in diabetes you will provide support in a numbers of nursing interventions, including blood glucose in those patient living with diabetes.

Healthcare assistant should ensure that the ward is clean and is providing a safe environment for both patients, relatives and staff.

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve.

We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We recognise that flexible working is important.

We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Benefits we offer to you:

Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS pension scheme membership

Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further

NHS Staff discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt

Stockport Credit Union
- for local financial advice

Monitoring patients and performing basic health check, making patients feel comfortable.

As a healthcare assistant you will have a vital role in delivering hands-on care to patients including supporting patient with their personal hygiene needs and assisting them during meal time.

You will also help in recording in take and output chart, checking of blood glucose pre meals.

Ward C3 provides high quality specialist endocrinology and diabetes care for an adult which is an inpatient base hospital care.

We are a mixed gender 14 bedded acute medical ward.

The diabetes and endocrinology team consist of specially trained diabetes specialist nurses, registrars and consultants who work closely with patients and ward nurses/doctors to optimise patient's diabetes control whilst acutely unwell.

Ward C3 also manages patients who have hormone deficiencies related to endocrine system.

Our team works closely with dieticians, podiatrist and other health care professionals in providing a multi-disciplinary approach to endocrine and diabetes care.

We have a well -established multi-cultural workforce and we will provide and support your training needs to develop your skills in your vital role as a healthcare assistant.

If you're a good team player, hardworking and passionate in providing a world class nursing care then we want to hear from you.

If successful this vacancy will require a Standard DBS check at a cost of £21.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary

In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust's policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.