Bank Healthcare Assistant London
Job description
Are you a Healthcare Assistant or a year 2/3 Nursing Student seeking a unique and rewarding nursing experience? Are you eager to enhance your skills in a variety of settings, making a positive impact on the care of patients? We are seeking motivated, enthusiastic and flexible candidates to join our Staff Bank. In return, we will offer you flexibility of hours and the opportunity to work in a supportive working environment within one of the most diverse areas of the country. This is your opportunity to become part of a supportive and friendly Trust which focuses on delivering high quality individual care in an exciting, but demanding environment. We consider our Staff Bank workers to be an integral part of our success and have recently increased ourbank ratesto support our bank workers! We are proud of them and the contribution they make to help ensure we provide safe and effective care to our patients. Successful candidates will have flexibility to plan their working pattern around current nursing/medical studies, learn more about the Homerton and gain an insight into our organisation ready for when you become a qualified nurse. We offer shifts throughout the Trust in various sites covering acute and community areas. This creates a wonderful opportunity for you to work with, and care for, patients with a variety of health conditions in surgical, medical & elderly wards. You will provide nursing and personal care to patients as prescribed in the individual plan of care and will be fully supervised by registered nursing staff. You will support and assist patients as required, maintaining their personal hygiene, toileting and appearance, personal grooming and dressing. **Please note you will be required to evidence that you are a year 2/3 medical/nursing student or hold a Care Certificate or NVQ level 3 in health and social care as this is an expectation of the job role and the 15 Care Certificate standards of care must be implemented in your day-to-day work.** Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond. We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Healthcare has recently attained the highest possible rating of Outstanding from the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home. Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, our procedures and our People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times. We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly. Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits. Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ and Nursing Times Best Places to Work list. The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s on this page. The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed. Selection process will include following stages: # Longlisting applications on single criterion - Qualification # Testing - if passed then moved to the next stage # Interview - to take place second half of November
