Health Care Assistant

4 days ago

Salford, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond - **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
We are looking for a Health Care Assistant with an interest in nutrition and caring for long term patients to join our specialist IF service at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust.

The intestinal failure unit (IFU) is a nationally designated specialist service which receives complex surgical patients from all over the UK. Being one of two National Reference Centers (NRC) in the whole of the country, the IFU at Salford has developed a strong reputation for being an international center of excellence for medical and surgical care.

The role would suit somebody with experience in caring for patients with stoma's and who understands the complex nature when managing patients with complex long-term conditions.

**Main duties of the job**:
The IFU HCA will work as part of the nursing team delivering care for adults with complex Intestinal Failure (IF).

The role is instrumental in supporting patients with IF during their transition from inpatient to patient care in the community and this will involve direct contact with inpatients, carers, and other health care professions (HCP's).

You will be an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team, will have emotional resilience, provide excellent care delivery.

Full training will be provided for all cares appropriate to HCA within the field of IF. This will include performing of clinical observations, weighing patients, meal delivery, managing complex stoma care and providing full holistic care to all patients within the hospital setting.

**Working for our organisation**:
Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place with an outstanding reputation. Salford is the place which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults. Twice rated Outstanding by the CQC, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for delivering a range of community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- NVQ Level 3

**Desirable criteria**:

- Venepuncture, Cannulation

**Experience, Knowledge & Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Experience of working in a health care setting

**Desirable criteria**:

- experience of working in a busy environment

**Trust Values and Behaviours**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Understanding of Trust Values and Behaviours

**Desirable criteria**:

- Stoma Care

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**Applicant requirements**:

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