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Senior Health Care Assistant, Band 3

Community Nursing (District Nursing – North Ryedale & South Hambleton)

Are you passionate about high quality patient care?

Do you have experience of working in a caring environment, hospital or community setting?

Are you keen to develop yourself and looking for a new and exciting opportunity?

Do you want to work in the beautiful, rural, South Hambleton and North Ryedale area?

We have health care assistant vacancies within our South Hambleton and North Ryedale team.  Bases include Easingwold, Kirkbymoorside and Pickering.

Our Senior Health Care Assistants work as part of a large team comprising Health Care Assistants at Band 2 & 3, Nursing Associates (Band 4), Staff Nurses (Band 5) and District Nurses (Band 6). We are looking to recruit dedicated, motivated and staff that are willing to go the extra mile for our patients to maintain high standards expected.

The Trust offers the prospect of being able to demonstrate experience and skills in a fast paced, ever changing environment, as well as access to a huge range of learning and training opportunities and support form a mentor and our clinical educators.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for dynamic, innovative and enthusiastic individuals, with a desire to play an active part in the provision of high quality nursing care within the community setting. We want to recruit caring and motivated Senior Health Care Assistants (band 3) to provide the best possible care to our patients. Previous experience of caring for people at home and a commitment to providing care to a high standard is essential.

You will have the willingness to extend and develop your skills, and have the ability to apply your knowledge and skills to practice. The successful candidate will be required to work over a 7 day period, and will work as an integral part of a busy forward thinking and innovative Community Nurse Team. This is a community post and requires the post holder to work independently in patients' homes.

It is essential that you the ability to transport yourself and equipment across the locality during the course of a normal working day. South Hambleton and North Ryedale is one of our most rural teams, please do ensure you consider the locality and travel from your home before considering applying for the role. 

Travel expenses will be covered by expenses and parking at our community sites is free for clinical staff.

We require staff to cross cover for other teams and potentially travel to work from other sites around York and Selby however we currently have hours available in South Hambleton and North Ryedale

Working for our organisation

Our benefits

We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:

·       Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants

·       27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)

·       A generous relocation package of up to 30% of salary (capped at £18k) to support with relocation expenses for hard to fill positions where relocation would be an expectation to undertake the role fully.  If you would like to discuss a potential relocation package, please speak to the recruiting department/manager.

·       A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave

·       Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme

·       NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme

·       An extensive range of learning and development opportunities

·       Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers

For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages.