Job overview

Make a difference to someone’s life – join us as a Healthcare Assistant at Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust.

Our Healthcare Assistants play a vital role in providing excellent care to our patients and are quite often a patients’ first point of contact.  We believe that excellent patient care is not just about having skills and knowledge, but also demonstrating those softer skills that really help to make our patients feel at ease and comfortable during their time with us. 

Caring experience isn’t just limited to working in a hospital environment.

We understand that the ability to care can come from many different experiences and we recognise those transferable skills that you may have gained caring for a loved one or by holding an NVQ/QCF Level 2 Diploma in Clinical Healthcare Support.

If you can answer yes to the following, then a role as a Healthcare Assistant may be just what you are looking for!

Do you consider yourself:

• Caring and kind
• Cheerful and friendly
• Willing to be hands-on with patients – provide personal care (toileting, washing)
• Able to follow instructions and procedures
• A good communicator, including listening skills
• Good at prioritising and organising

PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY

Main duties of the job

• To maintain the highest possible standards of compassionate and professional patient centered care with particular attention to privacy and dignity.
• Assist patients with personal care, hygiene and sanitary needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained at all times.
• Assist in meeting patients’ nutritional needs, including non-oral nutritional and fluid intake. Ensure that patients who require assistance at mealtimes have an appropriately coloured tray to identify they need help and are assisted with eating and drinking.
• Where identified in the plan of care, ensure that food and fluid intake and output are accurately documented on appropriate patient charts.
• Assist in skin and pressure area care to prevent pressure ulcers developing. Under the supervision of registered nurses, ensure patients are helped to move position to prevent discomfort and / or pressure ulcers developing.
• Assist patients with safe mobilisation according to their plan of care and where appropriate seek help from other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Utilise appropriate moving and handling equipment to reduce the risk of injury to the patient and themselves.
• Assist in supporting rehabilitation and therapeutic activities for patients as appropriate.
• Assist registered nursing staff in the taking and recording of vital signs as per the patient’s plan of care.
• Communicate any changes in the patient’s condition to the nurse / midwife in charge

Working for our organisation

NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.

Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.