Healthcare Assistant

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.

The Trust supports continuous development through clinical supervision, training, and appraisal, with ongoing career development opportunities available once in post such as Senior Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship Standard.

Responsible for the maintenance of your own skills and competencies required to undertake the role.

Assist the Registered nurse (RN) in the delivery of care to a designated patient group, demonstrating an ability to prioritise such care.

Determine the comfort of patients by talking and listening to them and building up a rapport.

Assist in providing personal hygiene of patients who are unable to do so themselves, including washing, bathing and assistance with using the toilet.

Assessing patients' health safety and wellbeing, escalating to appropriate colleagues if required

Assist in feeding/ giving drinks to patients who are unable to do so for themselves and complete food and fluid charts where necessary.

Ensure patient dignity supporting patients with tact, empathy, and persuasion.

Ensure that all care provided by yourself is documented appropriately.

Report any changes in patient condition to the RN.

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.

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.

Education & Qualifications

Essential: - Care certificate is essential or be willing to work towards completing on successful appointment to the post.

Desirable: - IT Qualification

Experience

Desirable: - Experience and involvement of an improvement project/s; - Experience of holding an area of responsibility relating to training/audit

Skills, Ability & Knowledge

Personal Qualities