Job summary
We are seeking band 3 Healthcare Assistants to the Emergency Department at our Aintree Hospital site. The Aintree site is the Major Trauma Centre for the region.
You will have the opportunity to work in all the areas of the Emergency Department.
We believe in excellent patient care and would like to recruit dynamic individuals who believe in our trust values and will ensure that every patient receives gold standard care.
The workload throughout the department is very varied and interesting with no two days being the same. The successful candidate must be dynamic, possess excellent communication skills, and have a high sense of professionalism and a strong belief in the value of teamwork.
Main duties of the job
Exciting opportunities have arisen for band 3 health care assistants in accident and emergency at Aintree Hospital.
We are looking for individuals who are passionate about providing high standards of nursing care and are keen to develop further. You must be a team player who has excellent communication and organisation skills.
To hear about the exciting work we do from our dedicated Trust employees and departments, for a future you could be a part of, please visit our Trust Facebook page by searching Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
- Participates in all aspects of patient care with particular attention to personal hygiene and grooming.
- Provision of patients toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
- Support of patients in managing incontinence and promotion of continence.
- The recording of a patients fluid intake and output using fluid balance charts
- Preparation and serving of patients meals, drinks and snacks.
- Assisting/feeding patients if necessary.
- The recording of patients dietary intake when indicated in the patients plan of care
- Enable patients to maintain/improve their mobility by use of exercise and mobility appliances.
- Assist in the prevention of pressure sore development as directed by the registered nurse in conjunction with the patients plan of care.
- Carry out any movement and handling within the safe practice guidelines from your mandatory training and in relation to the patients manual handling plan.
- Obtaining specimens from patients for ward or laboratory testing
- Insertion and removal of cannulae and catheters
- Venepuncture.
- Undertake the dressing of non-complex wounds (in accordance with identified competencies and in conjunction with the plan of care)
- Prepare and maintain environments for clinical treatments and investigations
- Prepare patients for treatment, investigations or procedures including offering support, answering questions appropriate to own knowledge/experience and assisting in recovery.
- Collection of blood products from laboratory as requested.
- Chaperoning and escorting patients to clinical departments within the hospital and to other hospitals for investigations. Assist registered nurse in performing last offices
- Reputation for high standard of patient care
- Demonstrable experience in hospital setting working at NVQ Level 2
- Demonstrates a willingness a capability to undertake NVQ Level 3
Please also refer to the Job Description attached
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Demonstrate a willingness and capability to undertake NVQ Level 3
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience in hospital setting working at NVQ level 2
Knowledge
Essential
- Reputation for high standard of patient care
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the Healthcare setting
- Basic Computer Skills
Other
Essential
- Supportive of colleagues and patients
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
Closing Date: 14 June 2023
