Community Renal Care Assistant Northampton, England
Job description
Full Time Position available
Northamptonshire Renal Community Team
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time enthusiastic, well-motivated Health Care Assistant to join Northants Renal Community Team. We are an expanding team who care for a cohort of patients that undertake either haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis at home. The community teams work alongside their colleagues in the Northampton and Kettering Dialysis units and you will be based at one of these sites.
You must have previous HCA experience working and ideally hold an NVQ3 or equivalent. Previous experience in renal is desirable but not essential, as full support and training will be given. The team that you will be joining is dedicated to training and promoting your continuous professional development.
The role involves working as part of the home care team delivering high quality of care for a wide variety of renal patients. This will include daily visits to patients homes to monitor their care and assist them so the ability to transport yourself is essential. Reimbursement for the use of a car for travel within the role is available. There are various hours available during the core hours of 8:00 – 20:00 with weekend working included.
The successful candidate will be flexible, demonstrate excellent communication skills, a commitment to personal and professional development and a desire to provide a high standard of care delivery to chronically ill patients.
We are one of the biggest and busiest NHS trusts in the country, incorporating the General, Glenfield and Royal Infirmary hospitals. We have our very own Children’s Hospital and run one of the country’s leading heart centres.
Our team is made up of more than 17,000 staff providing a range of services primarily for the one million residents of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
We work with partners at the University of Leicester and De Montfort University providing world-class teaching to nurture and develop the next generation of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, many of whom go on to spend their working lives with us.
Our purpose is to provide ‘Caring at its best’ and our staff have helped us create a set of values that embody who we are and what we’re here to do. They are:
- We focus on what matters most
- We treat others how we would like to be treated
- We are passionate and creative in our work
- We do what we say we are going to do
- We are one team and we are best when we work together
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust: (leicestershospitals.nhs.uk)
- Provide clinical and non-clinical support to the multi-professional team under the direction of an appropriate registered health care professional.
- Deliver direct and indirect care as delegated under the direction and supervision of an appropriate registered health care professional.
- Support the delivery of effective health care to patients/service users by undertaking duties as identified by the multi- professional team.
- Undertake specified and unsupervised aspects of care and therapeutic intervention as delegated by the registered health care professional within an agreed protocol, sphere of responsibility and after completing appropriate competency- based training agreed by the Trust.
- Attending patients homes for monitoring and delivering high quality care on a daily basis.
Sister / Charge Nurse and staff; the wider multidisciplinary team; Facilities Directorate; Nursing Directorate; Infection control; Patients Information and Liaison Service.
Please note that this post does not meet the pay and skill level required for a Skilled worker visa
