Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Community Resource Team
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2024-36-21-DR
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- 317 Trustwide
- Salary
- £24,071 - £25,674 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/10/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 04/11/2024
Employer heading
Healthcare Assistant (Community)
Band 3
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
We are very excited to offer an opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to join our team as a Healthcare Assistant. This will be to support the role of the physiotherapist and nurse within the Frailty Force team by carrying out patient centred care in the homes of older people living with frailty. Specific tasks will include exercise support and progression, walking aid prescription and equipment provision under the supervision of healthcare professionals.
Frailty Force is a multidisciplinary team comprising of physiotherapists, nurses, and technical instructors. Our main remits include providing proactive care in the homes of people living with frailty to improve health, wellbeing and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.
Current valid driving license for the UK and access to your own vehicle
- Interview date: 4 November 2024
- 15 Hours/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
Main duties of the job
- Working within MDT
- Develop therapeutic relationships with patients.
- Deliver exercises in patients homes under supervision of physiotherapist.
- Supporting patients and family as per MDT plan.
- Contribute to department objectives, be resilient and open to embrace change.
- Complete electronic patient records
- Report changes in patient condition to supervisors
- Under take patient observation
Working for our organisation
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To abide by Trust policies and procedures
- To assist the Registered Nurses or other registered health care practitioners in providing high quality patient care
- Maintain patients privacy and dignity at all times
- Be an effective part of the multi-disciplinary team contributing to the departmental objectives.
- Continue to develop and maintain competencies in nursing tasks to maintain high quality safe care.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to maintain and improve knowledge, skills and competence to ensure high standards of patient care.
- Ability to carry out routine elements of assessment to enhance the patient / client journey, following an initial assessment by a registered practitioner.
- Ability to meet basic care needs of patients
- Understanding of confidentiality
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of basic safeguarding
Skills
Essential criteria
- Basic IT skills
- Ability to be responsible for own development, identifying training needs, set personal objectives and attend appropriate training as agreed by line manager.
- Ability to initiate emergency action when required e.g. Cardiac arrest, Fire.
- Car driver / owner
Desirable criteria
- Venepuncture skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to plan, prioritise own and delegated work tasks and activities.
- Previous experience / consolidation of practice as a HCA (evidence of knowledge attained at level 3 using the Qualifications and Credit Framework)
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 in appropriate subject (or on pathway) or equivalent qualification / experience
- Good literacy and numeracy skills
- Completion of a Trust or other HCA development programme
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Ashley Shield
- Job title
- Nurse Specialist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 282 6627
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