Health Care Assistant - Beech A in Carlisle

Are you committed to delivering the highest level of patient care? Do you treat colleagues, patients (and their visitors) with courtesy, consideration and dignity? If your answers are yes, then read on!

These vacancies are for contracted hours full or part time where available. NCIC is excited to announce there are 3.0 WTE vacancies for Health Care Assistants needed on Beech A Ward in Carlisle. Full time and part time hours available.

HCAs are expected to ensure that the organisation and leadership of nursing and midwifery services supports the delivery of the highest standards of patient care in the pursuance of the Trust's objectives. The core nursing team is responsible for ensuring that effective systems of work are in place to ensure the safe delivery of evidence-based patient care. Support effective patient flows and management of resources in the allocated clinical area in the Trust.

Main duties of the job:

• To assist the registered nurses (or other healthcare practitioners) in providing high quality patient care.
• Maintain patients' privacy and dignity at all times and provide care in a compassionate and sensitive manner.
• Be an effective part of the multi-disciplinary team contributing to the departmental objectives.
• Continue to develop and maintain competencies in nursing tasks to maintain high quality safe care.
• Contribute to general maintenance and other ward/department duties as required, e.g. general tidiness, replenish stock and ensure clinical equipment is clean, working and stored correctly.
• Contribute to the work of the department by working under direct or indirect supervision of registered practitioners or assistant practitioners.

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of safe, high quality care every time:

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation, we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities:

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

The essential criteria for this role includes the requirement to have a care certificate or the willingness and ability to undertake this.

Important Information:

• Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time.
• This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Person specification:

• National Care Certificate or commitment to complete as part of induction process.
• NHS employment.
• Experience of providing care in a professional or personal setting.

Skills & Aptitudes:

• Ability to communicate with members of the public and health care providers.
• Ability to work as a member of a team.
• Ability to use initiative appropriately.