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Healthcare Assistant
Accepting applications until: 22-Aug-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 22-Aug-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHSFT
- Address
- Whinney Heys Road
- Town
- Blackpool
- Postcode
- FY3 8NR
- Major / Minor Region
- Lancashire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent: Fully rotational position.
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Fully rotational)
Salary
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 3 ''subject to AFC banding process’')
Specialty
- Main area
- General Medicine
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for inspirational and motivated Health Care Assistants to join our Trust within our Integrated Medicine and Emergency Care division at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals.
The successful candidates will be supported by both our nursing and medical team and essential training for the role will be provided.
You must be able to communicate effectively with a wide range of healthcare professionals and be enthusiastic and passionate about the delivery of high-quality care. As a health care assistant within the team, your role will be assisting our patients with everyday tasks which involve maintaining a good oral intake, assisting with personal hygiene, and escorting patients to various procedures whilst also assisting both our medical and nursing teams to deliver treatment. In addition to providing essential nursing care, there will be a range of clinical skills you are expected to acquire to fulfil the role requirements, such as undertaking clinical observations and venepuncture (taking blood samples). All necessary training for acquiring these skills will be provided by the Trust.
Working alongside skilled health professionals who work within this multidisciplinary team, the department provides a fantastic place to learn and for you to develop your skills.
Advert
We are looking to recruit a number of caring and enthusiastic healthcare assistants to join various wards across Blackpool Teaching Hospitals.
You need to have excellent communication skills, as our patients are often complex and require you to be patient and understanding.
You will be required to liaise with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure patient needs are identified and communicated effectively so that safe decisions are made around patient care.
You will be expected to maintain high standards of nursing care under the supervision of a Registered Nurse and be personally responsible for your actions following the Trust’s Policies and Procedures. You will be required to support the safe admission, transfer and discharges of patients and be pro-active in the timely support provided to patients at all times.
You will be expected to maintain accurate written and/or electronic records ensuring all legal requirements are met.
You will be encouraged and supported to gain new skills and to be actively involved in change improvement and being a champion for an area of care that you feel interested in. You should also be committed to and have evidence of continuing professional development.
You will need to be prepared to work flexibly to the needs of the service.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high number of applicants apply.
Working for our organisation
Working for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will provide you with lots of opportunity to develop your skills and further your career. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre and North Lancashire.
We are proud of the care we strive to provide, and we want to continue to build on this by the addition of passionate, kind and caring people to our teams. Using the latest pathways, evidence-based care and, using all the community therapy support networks available to us to give every patient the best opportunity to remain independent, safe and supported. We are looking for people who strongly align with our Trust values and share common goals.
As a Trust we are committed to:
- Developing new roles and ways of working to ensure a flexible and innovative approach to staff.
- Real equality of opportunity.
- Continuous learning and development for staff.
- Achieving a work life balance
We are committed to the effective recruitment, retention and development for our employees, which is why we offer a great working environment, an attractive range of benefits and excellent opportunities for training and development.
The Trust is accredited as a Disability Confident employer. That means we recognise our obligations to ensure people with disabilities are afforded equal opportunity to enter employment and progress if and where possible.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note - If your application is successful, you will be invited to attend an assessment centre where you will get to meet various members of the team and experience the environment and place of work. The assessment centre will take approx. 3 hours to complete and will include 4 components:
Aptitude test
Practical
Team table session
A short informal interview
**** The assessment centre will be conducted face to face likely to be early September. Once the dates are confirmed, we will communicate this out to you. Unfortunately, we are unable to facilitate a remote assessment day *****
For further information on the Job Description and main responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description.
Please also read the attached Person Specification to ensure you have the relevant criteria for the post.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- Completion of the NHS Care Certificate or relevant experience to vocational qualification level 3.
- Or willing to complete the care certificate within the first 3 months of employment
Desirable criteria
- IT qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and/or experience of care and related procedures.
- Experience with manual handling of patients, using moving aids
- Experience of completing patient care records
Desirable criteria
- Experience and involvement of an improvement project/s
- Experience of holding an area of responsibility relating to training/audit
Skills, ability and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and/or experience of personal care and related procedures
- Able to accurately update patient records for care delivered including changes to patient condition.
- Ability to communicate factual information clearly and effectively with tact and empathy overcoming barriers to communication such as physical impairments or mental health/learning disabilities
- Ability to carry out routine duties acting on own initiative with limited supervision.
- Ability to work as part of a team, as well as on own initiative with access to supervision.
- Understands confidentiality
- Ability to follow Trust policy's relevant to the role.
- Be able to participate in audits that are relevant to the role.
- Ability to use IT skills proficiently on using relevant IT systems.
- Ability to deliver (with appropriate training and competency assessment) a range of clinical/technical skills and care duties such as (but not limited to): clinical observations, blood glucose monitoring, ECG’s, simple wound dressings.
- Able to supervise others e.g. T- level students, new B3 HCA’s, Band 2 HCA’s
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Caring
- Adaptable to the changing needs of the service
- Self-motivated
- Enthusiastic
- Approachable
- Diplomatic
- Innovative
- Flexible
- Responsible and accountable
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Recruitment Team
- Job title
- Recruitment Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 957001
- Additional information
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