Health Care Assistant in Grantham

Job Introduction

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership, a vibrant new partnership delivering substance use treatment and recovery services across Lincolnshire from April 2024. Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership is delivered between Turning Point, Framework and Double Impact. The partnership combines Turning Point’s national experience as an outstanding substance use provider together with Double Impact’s specialism in lived experience and recovery and Framework’s expertise supporting service users with complex issues.

Our ‘Recovery First’ model underpins everything at Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership, with lived experience recovery fully integrated and visible throughout. Lincolnshire’s residents will benefit from Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership’s highly integrated and highly localised approach, supporting with multiple issues across all parts of Lincolnshire.

As a Health Care Assistant, you will make a real difference to people’s lives as you support the development the personal, flexible and realistic support and care packages, which people need to help turn things around.

The role will provide you with scope and support to enhance both your personal and professional development whilst working as part of a friendly and multidisciplinary team. We would welcome applications from anyone with previous experience of working as a Healthcare Assistant who is passionate about improving health and wellbeing and wishes to develop their skills, knowledge and experience within substance misuse. A tailored induction and training package dependent on your experience will be offered.

Main responsibilities

As a Health Care Assistant will assist in the provision of a comprehensive, high-quality and efficient Substance Use Services. The post holder will be involved in supporting staff in the delivery of both pharmacological and psychosocial interventions including assessment, implementation, care planning evaluation of patient care:

• To support and undertake substance misuse interventions and clinical procedures where trained: e.g. participating in triage assessments and screenings, urine analysis, healthy living assessments, physical observations, blood borne virus screening, ECG recording and undertake venepuncture where necessary supported with the appropriate training
• Ensuring appropriate entries are made on patients computerised medical records
• Undertake requested administrative tasks for example, clinical audit data collection, clinical intervention appointment scheduling and pro-active treatment engagement contact attempts
• Supporting stock usage and stock control management
• Monitoring fridge temperatures and fridge logs and taking action when appropriate
• Recording in Controlled Drugs (CDs) registers and taking appropriate action when required
• Maintaining equipment and dispensing areas and ensuring they are kept in a clean and orderly manner
• Support the provision of opiate and alcohol detoxifications, undertaking physical detox observations including BP and reporting any concerns to health and wellbeing nurse, nurse prescriber/medic.
• Supporting and assisting the delivery of nurse health and wellbeing and prescribing clinics
• Supporting and assisting the delivery of needle exchange and harm reduction services
• Participating in the safe and secure storage of medicines in accordance with all medicines legislation, Turning Point SOPs and Turning Point policies
• Report critical incidents using DATIX
• Participate in late, weekend and statutory holiday rotas and extended hours as require

The Ideal Candidate

Essential Requirements:

• Must hold NVQ Level 3 or equivalent

• Excellent interpersonal skills at all levels to engage, build relationships and influence colleagues and service users.
• Demonstrable evidence of having worked effectively within a multi-professional team in a healthcare setting.
• Plain English skills – both verbal and written to bring clarity and purpose.
• Ability to tailor message to the audience and to convey clinical assessment information to wider staff.
• Ability to deliver against agreed objectives and targets.
• Ability to communicate effectively with community and prison colleagues using a variety of mediums.
• Displays commitment to improving quality of service-to-Service Users.
• Working knowledge of confidentiality
• Understanding of local and national safeguarding procedures.
• Demonstrates knowledge of legislation/ guidance relating to medicines usage.
• Recognise barriers to understanding, particularly within patient groups.
• Ability to utilise medical equipment to gather physical observations and convey these with some understanding to clinical staff. i.e. blood pressures.
• Must hold a full driving licence and can drive in order to travel and work across multiple locations as required.

We know reward looks different to each person and so whether its ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career – we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package that includes:

• 25 days’ paid holiday a year + Bank Holidays, increasing with each year of service up to 27 days + Bank Holidays. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.
• Join our team and discover the comprehensive benefits we offer by following this link to explore all the exciting perks available to our employees Turning Point Benefits.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

Turning Point

Attached documents

• SM - Health Care Assistant.pdf

Apply