Band 3 Health Care Assistant Royal Brompton Hospital
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it.Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’.Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS.We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
The role is to ensure seamless and effective delivery of patient care by working closely with the Registered Nurse.
The Post holder is a member of the nursing team appointed to support Registered Nurses in the delivery of direct care for patients receiving treatment and diagnosis for heart and lung conditions.
The role involves contact on a physical and psychological level with patients and their families. The post holder will undertake a range of activities under the supervision of a registered nurse, having been assessed and deemed competent in the activities required.
Closing date: 9th May 2025
Main duties of the job
Assisting the Registered Nurse to deliver personal care to patients.
Assess and deliver under the supervision/guidance of the Registered Nurse, patient care requirements.
Assist patients with eating and drinking.
Taking and recording of observations e.g. blood pressure, temperature and heart rate.
ECG recording
Restocking the patient environment and the ward stock areas.
Ensuring the ward is safe and clean at all times.
Working for our organisation
Royal Brompton and Harefield (RB&H) hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world.
Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained RB&H an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment and research.
We are working in partnership with King’s Health Partners, to deliver our vision of creating a new centre of excellence, which will be the global leader in the research into and treatment of heart and lung disease, in patients from pre-birth to old age.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities- Under the direction and supervision of the registered nurse, providing nursing support, care and treatment and carrying out nursing procedures within the sphere of required competencies.
- Provide support and assistance to professional colleagues when they are performing specific therapies, clinical treatments and investigative programmes for patients.
- Perform and report clinical observation of a patient including respiration rate, temperature, pulse, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, blood glucose monitoring, obtain urine specimen and perform routine urine analysis, reporting any concerns in the patient’s condition to the nurse in charge.
- Subject to appropriate training, become familiar with carrying out phlebotomy, cannulation, blood specimen handling, performing ECG’s, simple dressings and other technical nursing tasks as deemed appropriate.
- Ensure medical equipment and clinical supplies are replenished to the stock levels as determined by the ward manager.
- Assist with the maintenance of the department’s cleanliness, demonstrate awareness in infection prevention and control procedures. Maintain a safe care environment by minimising risk and report defects in equipment immediately to the nurse in charge.
- Ensure the safeguarding of medical records whilst they are in the department and to accurately file referral and supporting documentation as appropriate.
- Identify and report, clinical risks any accidents/incidents, near misses involving staff, patients and visitors in accordance with Trust policies and assist in any investigations as required.
- Work within flexible rosters, designed to achieve the most effective use of staff to meet the needs of our patients.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Full Care Certificate both Theory and Practical
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Previous experience of working as a HCA
- Previous experience of working in an acute hospital care setting
Skills
Essential criteria- Proven excellent communication skills both orally and in writing
- Phlebotomy
- Cannulation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service.We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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