Healthcare Assistant

3 months ago

Herne Bay, United Kingdom Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Acute Response Team (ART) provides short term health, rehabilitation and care support to enable service users to remain in the community / home environment. This may include treating acutely unwell people that would otherwise require hospital admission.

The service also supports hospital discharges. Home is nationally evidenced to be the best place to recover and regain independence. Enablement and rehabilitation will be the priority focus with active participation from service users in order to achieve maximum independence.

Band 2 Health Care Assistants will work closely with all users of our services and their families, friends and carers, who all play an invaluable contribution in how our users experience our services.

Health Care Assistants are expected to be kind and responsive, but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the servicesprovided within the community team across the health economy by:

- Keeping the people who use our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments escalating concerns to RegisteredProfessional Staff.
- Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures within scope of assessed core competence.
- Ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process.

Health Care Assistants who work in these services require a range of core skills as follows:

- To deliver elements of prescribed packages of care under the guidance and supervision of a Nurse / Therapist / Health Care practitioner.
- To undertake, and report back on delegated clinical activities that have previously been signed competent.
- To actively work as a member of the multi-professional team to provide high quality care to patients.
- To implement straightforward tasks and work guided by standard operating procedures and protocols and undertake roles/duties as delegated by a nurse/therapist.
- To undertake a variety of clinical intervention tasks after achieving appropriate core competencies delegated by a nurse/therapist.

One of the largest community NHS trusts in the UK, KCHFT are rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC. We’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of care to patients and deliver excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our valuesCompassionateAspirationalResponsiveExcellent

We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, which leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. So, all our colleagues have equal access to career opportunities.

We’ve signed up to be a real UK living wage employer. The real Living Wage is the only UK wage rate voluntarily paid by 7,000+ UK businesses who believe their staff deserve a fair wage. Committing to the real UK Living Wage is one way we’re delivering our pledge to be the best employer

Flexibility is another way we do this. In the NHS, we’re reminded every day how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement without having to sacrifice time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

Looking for professional development? We can support that too Ourcareer pathwayswill help you achieve your aspirations

Job responsibilities

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

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Good luck We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity

Although vaccination against COVID-19 is not mandatory, we are strongly encouraging colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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