Job summary
Employer heading
Healthcare Assistant - Bank
Band 2
Job overview
We are looking for experienced Healthcare Assistants and Support Workers to join our Hospital Bank.
As a Bank Healthcare Assistant you will need to cover vacant ad-hoc shifts through out the hospital, so you would be working in many different areas and with different teams. Working on the Bank can be very demanding for this reason and it is preferable that you have experience in a healthcare role. In addition working via the Bank gives you the flexibility to get a real work life balance and work when it suits you.
Healthcare Assistant shifts cover 24 hours 7days a week and will include weekends, nights and Bank Holidays. Shifts are normally 12 hours and are usually 7am - 7pm, and 7pm to 7am.
Main duties of the job
It is important to consider that some aspects of healthcare work can be distressing and unpleasant but it can be an incredibly rewarding role.
You will be expected to help patients with personal care (such as washing or dressing) without being embarrassed or feeling awkward. You will also need to be able to communicate empathetically and sympathetically to relatives and care for our patients who can be very unwell.
PLEASE NOTE: You must be able to work a minimum of two shifts a week on the Bank (unless you are a student nurse).
Bank workers must complete role specific training prior to booking shifts.
Working for our organisation
Working in healthcare means you'll be making a positive difference to the lives of others. You may help to bring a new life into the world or save another life from ending. Even just knowing that you have helped to make a patient’s stay with us a little easier is priceless.
You will be working for the NHS, the UK's largest employer, with the many benefits that it brings.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job Description
Healthcare Assistants carry out a wide range of care duties directly with the patient, and their relatives/carers.
These duties are carried out after training (which we will provide), under the direction of a professionally qualified practitioner (such as a Nurse) and can include the following tasks:
- Maintaining dignity whilst helping patients to wash or shower
- Serving food and, if necessary, helping to feed patients
- Making and changing beds
- Turning patients who are confined to bed to avoid pressure damage
- Talking with patients to help them feel less lonely or anxious
- Helping patients with mobility problems and assisting patients to rehabilitate to their discharge destination
- Giving out and collecting bedpans and assisting with the toileting needs of our patients
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- previous professional health care experience (ie care home etc)
- previous care experience (family/friends etc)
Desirable criteria
- previous NHS experience
Values
Essential criteria
- demonstrates friendly and caring personality
- demonstrates desire to help people
Job Requirements
Essential criteria
- demonstrates ability to work on own initiative
- demonstrates ability to work as part of a team
- demonstrates ability to work shifts
Essential
Essential criteria
- Willingness to achieve the Care Certificate
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
- Aimee Duffy
- Job title
- Recruitment Officer- Bank HCA's
- Email address
- [email protected]
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