Health Care Assistant

1 month ago

East Kilbride, United Kingdom NHS Scotland Full time

**The Role**:
**The post holder will promote and work within the Discharge Lounge by**:

- Ensuring a high standard of nursing care is provided to patients from all specialties and that an acceptable standard is maintained while awaiting discharge home within the Discharge Lounge.

Liaise with transport services, social work, and pharmacy for an efficient discharge for the patients**Additional Information Specific to the Role**
- Co-ordinate between different professional groups within the hospital, and if necessary between hospitals and other external care agencies to employ best practice in discharge management.
- Share information between the hospital and external agencies
- Prescription tracking and collection on a regular basis
- Assistance in bed busting when required
- Assist the flow team when required
- Shared responsibility in the ordering and reviewing of hospital beds, mattress’s and commodes Data collection**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
- Ability to work with people and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to carry out assigned tasks effectively in a busy environment.

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

- SVQ2 in health care or working towards or equivalent experience working in a care environment/role
- Previous patient contact and care in acute or equivalent setting

**Contract type**:

- **Permanent****:

- **Full time****:

- **37.5 hours**

**Location and Working Pattern**:
This role will be based in Patient Flow
- Discharge Lounge Team within University Hospital Hairmyres

The working pattern for this role is Rotational and will cover Dayshift, Backshift and Nightshift.

**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
- We recommend using the Internet Browser "Google Chrome" or "Microsoft Edge" when using Jobtrain

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.

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who h

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