Job summary
- Main area
- Stroke Services
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-SB-EMF16141
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey County Hospital
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £24,008 - £25,553 Per annum (pro rata) inc HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
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Healthcare Assistant Band 3 - Wisley Ward
Band 3
Job overview
The post holder will work as an integral member of this specialised team of nurses to provide one to one, enhanced care and supervision to either an individual patient or group of patients following an agreed risk assessment process.
Main duties of the job
Nursing care will require excellent communication and engagement skills, the ability to deliver therapeutic patient activities, to de-escalate and deal with potentially challenging situations and people.
To assist, under supervision with the delivery of nursing care in conjunction with the wider multidisciplinary team.
To act as a role model and foster a culture in which compassionate, personalised care is delivered consistently to vulnerable patients requiring one to one care or enhanced care.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced healthcare assistant as part of the heightened surveillance team to provide one to one care for vulnerable patients. The suitable applicant will have excellent communications skills and be able to provide kindness and compassion to individual patients across the clinical area. You would be required to actively engage with patients that require enhanced supervision through therapeutic patient activities and engagement skills. You would be a valued member of the team and you will be expected to deliver high standards of patient-centered care showing empathy, patience and understanding at all times.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ 3 or equivalent training essential
Knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Previous NHS experience
- Working knowledge of medical terminology & patient confidentiality
- Ability to express an understanding of the key principles of infection control
- Ability to express an understanding of audit
- Experience of working with vulnerable people
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Kelly Carter
- Job title
- Senior Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
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