Healthcare Assistant - Community Services | Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Prescot
The posts will be part of a skill mixed team providing a range of nursing interventions to patients registered with St Helens G.Ps. Examples of the duties carried out are as follows:
- Supporting registered nurses providing end of life care
- Provision of personal care in line with care plans
- Follow all care plans/wound care/catheter care/administration of medication
The post holders will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users’ and their carers.
The post holders will embrace the core values of the organisation. These principles will recognise the need to:- Promote safe practices
- Value the aims of service users
- Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
- Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
- Value social inclusion
- Supporting registered nurses providing end of life care
- Provision of personal care in line with care plans
- Follow all care plans/wound care/catheter care/administration of medication
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our Services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients.We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
- To assist in/support the identification of health needs and participate in the planning, implementation and evaluation of individual care interventions under the direct/indirect supervision of a registered Practitioner depending upon competency/complexity of work.
- To provide advice to clients and carers in relation to any needs and the wider public health remit of the Health and Social Care organisation under the direct/indirect supervision of a registered practitioner.
- To maintain accurate, clear, concise, and contemporaneous records as per trust policy and communicate information to members of the Team as necessary.
- To be aware of the role limitations of practice and when to seek further advice from a supervising Registered Practitioner.
- Provide concise handover and information updates to other members of the Team as required.
- To demonstrate a knowledge of external agencies who could be involved in patient care and work in partnership with these agencies under the direct/indirect supervision of a registered practitioner with regards to follow up and provide feedback to Registered Practitioners as appropriate.
- Identify and use opportunities to promote healthy lifestyles e.g. nutrition, physical activity, individuals, and groups.
- To carry out a range of diagnostic/assessment techniques to identify and respond to clients’ needs in a range of settings under the direct/indirect supervision of a registered practitioner.
- To deliver a range of intervention techniques and skills to meet clients’ needs in a range of settings under the direct/indirect supervision of a registered practitioner.
- To evaluate and feedback clients’ responses to interventions in discussion with registered practitioners and modify under the direct/indirect supervision of a registered practitioner.
- To evaluate the effectiveness of learning opportunities.
- Maintain a personal development plan and competency portfolio, in line with the job role.
- Participate in individual and group supervision in line with organisational policy.
- Participate in an individual performance review on an annual basis and be proactive in Continuous Professional Development.
- Utilise informal and formal learning opportunities both independently and with others.
- Participate in the delivery of Learning and Development opportunities to all bands of staff as delegated.
This advert closes on Tuesday 22 Oct 2024
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