Care Assistant
Job overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic and caring individual, with or without experience, who would enjoy the challenge of working as a Care Assistant in a Critical Care environment.
This role provides a special opportunity to be part of a tight-knit team of healthcare professionals and have the privilege of sharing unique life experiences every day.
Successful applicants will have a range of training and developmental opportunities which will be available in-house.
Main duties of the job
The role is to provide support to the trained nurses in caring for their patients. A large part of the role involves maintaining high standards of cleanliness to ensure infection control standards are met.
With the ongoing support of your team it will be an excellent opportunity for individuals wishing to develop their interpersonal, communication and caring skills.
The job does involve a shift work pattern which includes nights and weekends. This vacancy is linked to a Level 2 Apprenticeship. This will support you to gain relevant knowledge, skills and experience that will help you achieve your potential in this role.Working alongside the Trust’s experienced staff you will be supported to gain the apprenticeship qualification and functional skills in maths and English if required. This is a great opportunity to gain a national recognised qualification while you are working and earning, which will support you in both this role and in your future career at Frimley Health.
You will not be required to undertake an apprenticeship if you have previously completed a relevant apprenticeship, NVQ or similar qualification.
Please see the attached Job Description for details of the main duties.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details please refer to the attached Job Description but some main duties of this job are:
- To help in the delivery of basic patient care under direct supervision of a trained nurse.
- To develop specific skills as requested by your Team Leader and carry them out as per agreed Trust policies and standards.
- To strip, clean and make up beds as per Unit policy after discharge of a patient.
- To re-stock equipment, disposables/consumables in preparation of
- To respect and maintain the rights, dignity and confidentiality of patients.
- To provide support to relatives and family of a patient with empathy during their distressing time.
- To undertake other duties as directed by the trained nurse, such as the delivery and collecting of items from stores or pharmacy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Basic level of Education
- Numeracy and Literacy skills
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience in a public facing role
- Caring experience
- Hospital experience
Skills
Essential criteria- Clear written communication skills
- Describes teamworking abilities
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.