Job summary
- Main area
- Healthcare Assistant - Treatment Centre
- Grade
- band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Other
- Job ref
- 412-S&C-5336
- Employer
- Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Leighton Hospital
- Town
- Crewe
- Salary
- £22,383 N/A
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Healthcare Assistant - Treatment Centre
band 2
Job overview
A permanent vacancy has arisen in the Treatment Centre for a Band 2 HCA.
We are seeking to employ an enthusiastic, motivated individual to join our team on a busy day surgery. We are a highly motivated team who enjoy developing and supporting staff whilst driving towards excellence in quality and safety of patient care. Applicants must possess excellent communication skills and willing to learn new skills in this diverse environment.
Main duties of the job
To work under the supervision of a qualified nurse to ensure the efficient and effective provision of the full range of nursing duties to patients who require surgical and endoscopy procedures.
The applicant must have a caring attitude, excellent communication skills and be able to work as part of a wider healthcare team.
Key Duties
Venepuncture
Undertake ECG testing
The testing and result recording of clinical specimens
Complete the admission process for patients ensuring correct documentation
Maintain a healthy, safe working environment
Work closely with other departments, where applicable
Working for our organisation
MCHFT provides a full range of local hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester boroughs (population 357K). The Trust provides high quality planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care as well as child health, maternity services, and intermediate care across our sites at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.
The Trust provides 500 beds and employs over 5,000 members of staff. An extensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools by our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance. With the formation of Integrated Care Systems in July 2022 the Trust became a strategic partner in both Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester ‘places’ and is part of the Cheshire and Merseyside partnership caring for a population of over 2.7million.
During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE.
At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Ensure compliance with Trust policies, procedures and guidelines for self and others, by taking action/alerting senior management team if practice appears to contravene policy, or if concerned about any aspect of patient care.
Take responsibility for own leaning and development be recognising and taking advantage of all opportunities to lean, including full participation in appraisal, supervision and action leaning.
Comply with infection prevention and control (IP&C) policies and procedures as appropriate to their role and responsibilities in their individual work setting. Staff are required to be personally accountable for their actions and be responsible for their won compliance in relation to IP&C polices, protocols or advice
Always work in accordance with the values and behaviours of the trust.
Ensure a healthy, safe and secure working environment, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, maintaining accurate documentation and reporting any concerns.
This job description is an outline of the role and function. It is not intended to describe all specific tasks.
Person specification
skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- IT skills
Qualifications
Desirable criteria
- NVQ 2 or equilivant
Experience
Essential criteria
- experience in health care
- previous customer/public experince
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amanda Kiernan
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01270 277968
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