Virtual Ward, Health Care Assistant

7 months ago

Wigton, United Kingdom North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Virtual Ward, Health Care Assistant, Band 3, Full and Part time available

We have a unique opportunity for you to join our virtual ward hub. You will be at the forefront of this exciting new initiative being expanded to incorporate patients with Frailty Syndrome and Heart failure to our existing Respiratory cohort of patients. We are looking for experienced, motivated health care assistants with a passion to deliver exemplary care to patients in their own home as an alternative to hospital based care. Supported by the clinical team including specialists in all branches of the Virtual ward, you will enjoy a varied working day, providing individualised care to patients at acute hospital sites and community settings including the patients own home. You will provide the support and care required to enable patients and their families to reside on a virtual ward including helping them with technology.

You will work alongside the Virtual ward Clinicians to deliver effective and high quality services for patients on the Virtual ward across North Cumbria.

You will have direct contact with patients, their families and carers to deliver personalised monitoring, care and education. You will also participate in remote monitoring and telephone and video assessments. You will provide, receive and process routine information. You will participate in regular MDT meetings.

The Virtual ward team is a highly supportive environment. The clinical team is passionate and enthusiastic about delivering and developing this new service. You will be welcomed for your own experience and skills and we are excited to develop the HCA role for Virtual wards.

The post holder will work under the direction of a registered professional/Person in Charge; they will spend the majority of their time working unsupervised delivering personalised care and nursing duties in the patient’s home, hospital or hub.

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’.

Being a clinically led organisation

Quality and safety at the heart

A positive patient experience every time

A great place to work

Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust’s sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.

We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute in to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies?

The essential criteria for this role includes the requirement to have a care certificate or the willingness and ability to undertake this. For further information, please see the additional information link which can be viewed under the “read this before applying” section.

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

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