Healthcare Assistant

1 month ago

Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, United Kingdom NHS Foundation Trust Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled and compassionate Senior Healthcare Assistant to join our team at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust. As a Senior Healthcare Assistant, you will play a vital role in providing high-quality patient-centered care in a safe clinical environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Maintain the highest possible standards of compassionate and professional patient care, with particular attention to privacy and dignity.
  • Assist patients with personal care, hygiene, and sanitary needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
  • Assist in meeting patients' nutritional needs, including non-oral nutritional and fluid intake, and ensure that patients who require assistance at mealtimes have a red tray and are assisted with eating and drinking.
  • Document food and fluid intake and elimination output accurately on appropriate charts, where identified in the patient's plan of care.
  • Assist in skin and pressure area care to prevent pressure ulcers developing, under the supervision of registered nurses, and help patients move position to prevent discomfort and/or pressure ulcers and promote effective respiratory function.
  • Assist patients with safe mobilization according to their plan of care and seek help from other members of the ward team when necessary.
  • Utilize appropriate moving and handling aids to reduce the risk of injury to the patient and yourself.
  • Support therapeutic recreational activities for patients as appropriate.
  • Assist registered staff in taking and recording vital signs as per the patient's plan of care.

Working for Our Organisation

We are a large organization with three hospitals located in Scunthorpe, Grimsby, and Goole, providing community services in North Lincolnshire. Our 6,500 members of staff care for and support a population of more than 400,000 people.

We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt 'best practice' to deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values: kindness, courage, and respect.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.

What We Offer

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognized and valued by all, and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers, we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential Criteria

  • An NVQ/QCF Level 2 Diploma in Clinical Healthcare Support or a commitment to undertaking and successfully completing available training and education once in post and within an agreed timeframe.
  • At least six months' experience within a care setting.

Desirable Criteria

  • IT skills.
  • Has undertaken some recent study.
  • Level 2 in English and Mathematics or equivalent.

Occupational Experience

Essential Criteria

  • Understanding of the needs of patients in a care setting.
  • Has a sound understanding of the need for confidentiality.
  • Confident people skills.

Desirable Criteria

  • Experience of working in a care setting or transferable skills, demonstrable keenness and passion for the role.
  • Personal Qualities.
  • Good communication skills.
  • Must be able to demonstrate a clear understanding of the Trust's values and be able to articulate in practice.
  • Reliable and flexible.
  • Enthusiasm and motivation.
  • Ability to work in a team and independently when required.
  • Helpful nature.
  • Committed to high personal and professional standards.
  • Flexible to meet the needs of the service and be able to work a variety of shifts including days and nights.

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