Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Healthcare work is very rewarding. You are making a positive difference to the lives of others when they are at their most vulnerable.  Other benefits include:

• We will recognise your previous qualifications and experience within your starting salary.
• You’ll have access to high quality training and national qualifications e.g. the care certificate.
• All Healthcare Assistants receive generous shift pay enhancements for nights, weekends and bank holidays which significantly increases basic pay rates.
• Holiday pay starts at 27 days' annual leave per year (increasing to 33 after 10 years), plus bank holidays.
• You will have access to a gold standard pension scheme.
• You will have access to NHS discounts across hundreds of shops, restaurants & services (Morrisons, Nando's etc.)
• Excellent career development opportunities are available e.g. access to Nurse training and apprenticeships.
• Paid leave when you’re sick after the first 6 months at work and access to all occupational health services (fast track physio referral scheme, counselling services etc)
• Generous occupational maternity, paternity and adoption pay.

Job Description

• Participate in the delivery of patient care, following agreed plans, policies, procedures, and clinical guidelines, carrying out tasks and activities relevant for the job role/place of work.

• Work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team/agencies to ensure that patient needs are met

• Involve patients, relatives/carers in the delivery of care, providing reassurance and support to assist their understanding and co-operation

• Prepare the clinical area for safe practice by ensuring that cleanliness is maintained, materials and equipment are ready for use, including clearing away afterwards

• Provide escort and transfer for patients with low dependency as directed by the multidisciplinary team

• Recognise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations

• Provide routine information to enable the effectiveness of care to be evaluated and records maintained

• Contribute to the recording and storing of information, ensuring it is securely held, accurate, complete and legible and can be retrieved promptly when required

• Promote the individual needs of the patient, by acknowledging preferences, rights and choices, respecting privacy and dignity, and by promoting anti-discriminatory practice, alerting senior staff if patient care appears to be disrespectful or discriminatory

• Establish and maintain effective communication, maintaining confidentiality of information

• Contribute to the effective management of risk, by accurate recording and reporting and correct maintenance of records and documentation 

• Ensure compliance with Trust policies, procedures and clinical guidelines, alerting senior staff if practice of self and others appear to contravene policy, or if concerned about any aspect of patient care

• Contribute to the development of services from the patients perspective, making suggestions for change and improvements, including taking part in patient and public involvement activities

• Contribute to the effective and efficient use of resources by ensuring that supplies are available, alerting senior staff when supplies are short, and by making suggestions to reduce waste