Bank Healthcare Assistant

Main area: Mental Health Services

Grade Band: 3

Contract: Bank - 0 hour contract

Hours: Flexible working - 0 hours per week (Various)

Job ref: 338-6784715-24-A

Site: Trustwide

Town: Hull & East Riding

Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 paid per hour

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 30/12/2024 23:59

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Healthcare Assistants to join our Humbelievable bank and support services throughout the Trust. Primarily, the shifts for this service mainly operate within our Mental Health units based at Newbridges, Miranda House, Mill View Court / Lodge, Maister Court, Cottingham Road, Hull. However, as a member of our bank, you will be able to pick up shifts trust-wide.

The ideal candidate will be innovative, dynamic, and flexible as they will be called upon for a variety of shifts, including nights, long days, and days.

Interviews for this post will take place in person at one of our Trust sites. We do not offer virtual interviews. To apply for this position, please ensure that you have the right to work in the UK. This role is NOT eligible for sponsorship as it is a zero-hour contract.

Main duties of the job

• To provide and receive routine information requiring tact, reassurance, empathy, and persuasive skills.
• To demonstrate a safe level of inter-personal skills when managing individuals with complex needs, accounting for any communication difficulties facing the patient.
• To accurately record patient information.
• To contribute to clinical meetings.
• To maintain up-to-date knowledge and skills relevant to the field of practice.
• Work with other colleagues within the relevant area of care.
• To recognise emergency situations and respond accordingly.
• Maintain up-to-date training and knowledge of violence and aggression and basic life support skills.
• Reporting significant findings to a registered healthcare professional.
• To implement clinical tasks in care packages/care plans, document observations and actions as directed by a registered healthcare professional.
• To provide direct personal care to patients using initiative in response to patient need.
• Be aware of and follow relevant Trust policies and procedures, e.g., control of infection policies and procedures; Clinical Governance Framework.
• Handles patient’s property and valuables.
• Guided by Trust policies and procedures.
• Responsible for the recording of personally generated clinical observations and information relating to patients and their care, ensuring all entries are counter-signed by a registered healthcare professional.

Working for our organisation

We are an award-winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East, and North Yorkshire. We are a forward-thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work, we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work-life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where, and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts, including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors, you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

Qualifications and Knowledge

• NVQ level 3 in mental health/learning disabilities area or significant equivalent experience in providing a range of activities for CYPF e.g., school observations and managed meals.
• To develop a knowledge and understanding of relevant legislation and policy drivers, e.g., the Mental Health Act, Vulnerable Adult Policy, the Children’s Act, Valuing People and implications of these to CYPF and their care.
• To have an understanding of Safeguarding, Confidentiality, and Information Governance.
• To have an understanding of mental health or learning disability issues.

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to communicate and engage with CYPF.
• Evidence of inter-personal skills and the ability to form therapeutic relationships with CYPF.
• Ability to work in a demanding environment.
• Ability to motivate others.

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.