Job summary
Employer heading
Healthcare Assistant - Recruitment Event - Medicine and Emergency Care
NHS AfC: Band 2
At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.
Job overview
East Lancashire Hospitals Trust are looking for individuals who share our values, and want to give safe, personal, and effective care.
Tell us about yourself and your experiences by applying online. Have a look at the person specification and tell us how you meet the skills and have the experience we’re looking for.
We have vacancies available within our Medical and Emergency Care Division - in the additional information section please highlight if you have a specialty area of interest, a preferred ward and the shift patterns you are ideally looking for, so we can match you to the right interview panel
This recruitment event is for substantive post only, not bank.
Successful applications will be invited to attend our recruitment event, to be held on Monday 12th August. A full day event where we’ll get to know you, your values and where you might work best through a series of assessment based tasks and forums. We’re aiming for the day to be fun and give you a chance to get to know what it’s like to be part of the ELHT family and give you a chance to meet some current staff and volunteers to help you understand what your role is all about.
Care experience is not essential as we are happy to provide training to candidates with the right qualities.
Our staff are passionate and enthusiastic and pride themselves on the care we give to our patients and on strong teamwork ethos – we can’t wait for you to join our team!
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
Our healthcare assistants play a vital role in meeting the physical, social, and emotional needs of patients. You’ll work on wards and department with other clinical and non-clinical staff and be responsible for some clinical duties like taking patient observations, helping with nutrition, and being a friendly face offering warmth and reassurance to patients. You can read full details on job description.
We provide training and a full induction to help you be ready for the important role in looking after patients and offer ongoing training to keep your skills up to date and help you progress in your career.
Working for our organisation
ELHT is one of the busiest hospitals trusts in the North West. One of the first things you’ll notice is a workforce of talented caring and supportive teams ready to welcome you to be part of our family.
As a health care assistant at ELHT you will have access to fantastic benefits including:
- Starting basic salary of £22,383 for full time workers, with enhanced pay for some shifts
- Flexible working opportunities
- Focus on career progression and pathways to becoming registered clinicians such as nursing, midwifery, or physiotherapy apprenticeships.
- Great annual leave package of 28 days per year plus bank holidays increasing to 33 days with long service!
- Access to a host of wellbeing services and activities including an on-site gym, fast physio, and mental health support.
- NHS discounts at a range of shops and services.
- Early access to wages to get instant help when you need it.
Established in 2003 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) is a large integrated health care organisation providing high quality acute secondary healthcare for the people of East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen.
Our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal, and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 700,000 patients a year from the most serious of emergencies to planned operations and procedures. We employ over 8,000 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work and achievements.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Further information can be found in the Job Profile. Please take a look at the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full description of the roles and responsibilities.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name
- Andrew Wells
- Job title
- Career & professional Development Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
Person specification
Attainments
Essential criteria
- Basic numeracy & literacy skills.
- Ability to comply with detailed procedures.
- Basic computer skills in order to access Trust policies.
- Able to maintain confidentiality
Desirable criteria
- ECG
- Venepuncture
- Cannulation
- Taking Observations
Apptitudes
Essential criteria
- Good standard of written/verbal communication
- Accuracy when making records.
- Willing to adapt to the changing needs of the service.
- Friendly, open, and approachable manner
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to deal with conflicting priorities.
- Team Worker
- Willingness to undertake training as required.
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
- Andrew Wells
- Job title
- Career & professional Development Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01254 734315
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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Employment Services
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
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