Healthcare Assistant

6 months ago

Wishaw, United Kingdom NHS Scotland Full time

**The Role**:
The post holder will carry out routine personal care/assist with routine examination duties for patients, in support of (and supervised by), a registered nurse/clinician.

The post holder will ensure a person centred approach to care delivery which is safe and effective to ensure and maintain quality strategy.

The post holder will carry out assigned duties to maintain hygiene, order and safety within the ward/department environment.

**Duties may vary with the type of ward/department and the degree of patient dependency.**

**NHS Lanarkshire**:
Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

**What we'll need you to bring**:

- Knowledge of personal care and related procedures or previous volunteer or work experience in a health, education or social environment.
- Required to undertake on the job training and induction
- Undertake mandatory HCSW standards
- Ability to work with people and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to carry out assigned tasks effectively in a busy environment.
- Working knowledge of basic information technology.

**It would be great if you also have**:

- SVQ, NVQ or associated health related study or working towards or willing to undertake SVQ training
- Evidence of training in Infection control and Prevention
- Evidence of recent study
- BLS
- Current experience as a nursing assistant in a health care setting
- Experience in acute hospital environment preferably in medical wards or coronary care environment
- Experience in assisting with the patient admission, observation and discharge process
- Calm when under pressure
- Caring, compassionate and approachable
- Enthusiastic and motivated

**Contract type**:
Permanent

Full time

37.5 hours

**Location and Working Pattern**:
This role will be based in University Hospital Wishaw within Ward 6 medical diabetics.

The working pattern for this role Monday-Sunday

**Looking to find out more?**:
If you’re looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you

**Why NHS Lanarkshire?**:
Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:

- A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
- A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
- Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
- Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
- Occupational health services
- Employee Counselling services
- Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

**Further Information**:
For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

**Additional Information for Applicants**:

- Posts close at midnight on the indicated date
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In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
- Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

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