Health Care Assistant
Accepting applications until: 30-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 30-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Harefield hospital
- Cyfeiriad
- Hill End Road
- Tref
- Harefield
- Cod post
- UB9 6JH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent: none
- Oriau
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (shifts to cover weekdays, weekends and public holidays. Day and night shifts)
Salary
- Cyflog
- £27,515 per annum including London outer HCA
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (Band 2)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Transplant
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
The Transplant Unit is a busy 34 bedded unit which comprises of two wards and includes a High Dependency Unit.
We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic Health care Assistants with excellent interpersonal skills to provide our patients with a high standard of compassionate care. You will be expected to deliver care in a professional manner and demonstrate the ability to work as part of a team.
Extensive in-service training and development will be provided.
We will require the successful candidate to work days, nights and weekends on a rotational basis.
Closing date: 30th July 2024
Interview date: 10th August 2024
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Carry out tasks in delivering and supporting direct patient care with the support of a registered nurse. Able to demonstrate abilities and competencies gained to enable tasks to be delegated from professionally qualified staff.
Providing direct care to patients including meeting hygiene and nutritional needs and assisting with mobilisation.
Checking the Resuscitation Trolley daily.
Admitting patients as directed by the Responsible Nurse taking and recording observations on the EPIC system, reporting any concerns to the relevant Nurse. Prepare patient rooms for Terminal or discharge cleaning as appropriate. Escorting Patients to different departments within the hospital for various investigations. Escorting stable patients for Biopsy, Angio, Right Heart Catheter, and Bronchoscopy to the Cath labs and Theatre. Nutritional needs, documentation on food charts and FBC correctly as well as informing
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
Full training will be provided. There are opportunities to complete your care Certificate and apply for Nursing Associate training.
Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
Demonstrate politeness, courtesy and sensitivity in dealing with patients, relatives and visitors, maintain good customer relations.
Carry out assigned clerical tasks as directed by a registered nurse.
If there is no assigned Phlebotomist to the Unit, taking of venous blood samples once appropriate training and competence is achieved depending on ward area Keep clinical areas clean and tidy and maintain a safe, pleasant environment.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Essential
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Experience working in a health care setting
Meini prawf dymunol
- Previous experience as a Health Care Assistant
Essential
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Experience in Customer care
Meini prawf dymunol
- Care Certificate
Essential
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Good spoken and written english
Meini prawf dymunol
- Good IT skills
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Helen Doyle
- Teitl y swydd
- Matron
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 01895 823737
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
ext 85450
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