Healthcare Assistant

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 applications 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 a 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.

A position has become available for a full time Band 3 Healthcare Assistant on Ward 39. Ward 39 is a busy 25 bedded mixed sex Cardiology/Cardiothoracic Ward. This position is a shift working role, internal rotation of shifts is ongoing, you will be expected to work weekends, bank holidays, and late finishes. 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.

Main duties of the job:

• To provide high quality timely patient care to all patients, linking in with MDT colleagues.
• Theatre prep, transport patient to investigations, personal care, assist with nutrition and hydration, assisting to provide safe environment and monitoring of high risk patients.
• 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.

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.

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.

Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached below as your application will be judged against this. Please note that every effort will be made to keep the vacancy live until published closing date, though there may be instances where such interest is generated, that for administrative reasons the post may close earlier.

The Trust operates a strict non-smoking policy. Members of staff are not permitted to smoke on Trust premises or grounds at any time nor take breaks during working hours for the purposes of smoking.