Job Introduction
Working closely with our Community Nursing Teams, as a Bank Healthcare Assistant you will support and assist the senior team members to provide care to people in their own homes for a wide range of conditions including diabetes, wound and end of life care. Our work is crucial to the community as we aim to prevent unnecessary hospital admission.
As part of our community nursing team we empower our staff to work autonomously and with flexibility by providing them with state of the art new tablets for them to be able to check in from home, write their notes up on the go and allow them to not be trapped in an office base, so they can really enjoy working in their chosen community background!
Main Responsibility
Within this role, you will:
- Assist in providing nursing care as delegated by the Team Leader within patient’s homes.
- Maintain knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to deliver a quality service that is responsive to the changing needs of patients.
- Provide clerical and administrative support to the team as delegated by the Senior Sister/Team Sister
- Deliver care in accordance with organisation policies, procedures and guidelines, according to competencies
- Report any changes in condition of the patient to the Team Leader or in their absence the designated nurse in charge of the caseload.
The Ideal Candidate
This is an opportunity to put your NVQ level 2/3 or equivalent/appropriate qualification/experience to great use. With strong communication and organisation skills, and a flexible approach will ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey.
In this role, it is essential you have a driving license, allowing you to travel to service users' homes within the area of West Lancashire.
We encourage nursing students to apply who are looking to broaden there knowledge in healthcare and gain some hands on experience in the community.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
Package Description
As a BANK Healthcare Assistant, you’ll be part of our valued team at Clayton House, Burscough
You will feel valued as a Bank Healthcare Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £11.88 per hour
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- HCRG Care Group is pleased to offer access to Wagestream - which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- Access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
- Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users.
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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