Healthcare Assistant - Ipswich, United Kingdom - East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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Ipswich, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Healthcare Assistant to join our Critical Care team at East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust based at the Ipswich Hospital site.

This post is offered part time.

You will be highly motivated, and willing to work within our well-established team of nurses and healthcare assistants to provide excellent support to our patients and their families, as well as contribute to the smooth running of our Critical Care Unit.

Depending on your level of experience, you will develop your competence and confidence through a programme of supervised practice, critical care specific competencies and a series of development days specifically for Band 3 staff.

You will already have completed your Care Certificate.

You will have excellent communication skills, be able to work well in a team and be able to work flexibly according to the day-to-day needs of the unit.

You will work within a Clinical Specialist team and contribute to activities and projects with the goal of professional and practice development.

The Critical Care Units form part of the East of England Critical Care Delivery Network and both sites utilise a paperless clinical information system.

Do you possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work confidently and collaboratively across professional boundaries? Are you keen and motivated to learn?

If so then we are looking for highly motivated nurses who are passionate about the care of patients to join our well-established critical care team, in delivering a 24/7 service.

Applicants will be expected to undertake internal rotation and weekend duties.

One of the largest Trust's in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area.

We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients' own homes. You will be joining a team of over 11,000 amazing colleagues providing care to 800,000 residents.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts.

Our Staff Health & Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone.

Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship.

All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

To support the clinical health care team in maintaining an efficient environment suitable for the care of critically ill adults and children

To assist the Registered Nurse in provision of delegated nursing care to patients

To support relatives/carers in Critical Care Unit (CCU)

To work within Trust, divisional and Unit guidelines and competencies

To contribute to the continuing development of clinical practice through participation in a Clinical Specialist Nursing Team

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.