Healthcare Assistant Colchester, England
Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Full Time
Colchester, England
23949 - 26282 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Essex Learning Disability Partnershipare looking for aHealthcare Assistant with a passion for delivering the highest standard of care for individuals that have a learning disability.
You will be working as aHealthcare AssistantwithinThe North EastEssex Community Learning Disability Team,based atLexden Site, Colchester.
The North East Essex Community Learning Disability Team provide person centred and holistic assessment and care for adults with a learning disability living in the community. The multidisciplinary team works with individuals that live independently in the community, with family/carers, and those that reside in supported living schemes or 24 hour residential placements. The service is committed to improving the health and well-being of people with a learning disability across North East Essex, by working in a simple, person-centred way that empowers individuals to maximise their potential.
The Benefits
- NHS and Employee Discounts
- Excellent NHS Pension Scheme
- Flexible Working Opportunities
- 35 days Annual Leave and Public Holiday Entitlement, Increasing to 37 Days After 5 Years of Service, and 41 Days After 10 Years' Service
- Car Lease Scheme
- Eye Test Vouchers
- Various Staff Well-being Programme's
- Free Parking
- Varied Career Pathway including Nurse Training options.
- Excellent Training Opportunities
- Paid DBS application
- Assessing the health care needs of people with Learning Disabilities in a range of environments and implementing interventions as required.
- Work in an interdisciplinary way to assess service user’s needs, devise care plans and evaluate outcomes.
- Work directly with service users, carers, colleagues and other service providers.
- To assist and be proactive in health promotion for people with Learning Disabilities, ensuring inclusion into mainstream services in line with national and local policy and guidance.
- Support training and education to other professionals/carers/family.
- Compassion, resilience and a dedication to empower and support service user independence
- Be able to communicate effectively, using a variety of methods, with service users, other members of the MDT, carers/family and other agencies involved in the service users’ care.
- An ability to maintain high standards of record keeping.
- A good understanding of legislation and national guidance relating to the care and support of people with learning disability.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on…
Duties and Responsibilities:
To work with an allocated caseload under the supervision of a qualified practitioner, and in close collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, service users and their carers
To have regard for the physical, psychological, emotional and environmental needs of the service users and their carers
To plan and lead group and individual sessions in conjunction with the Practitioner
To provide a specialist health service as directed by the Practitioner and in close liaison with other agencies by delivering an agreed package of care
To work as a named health care worker to service users within the Team
To work independently in a variety of settings reporting observations or concerns in a service users health / behaviour back to the Practitioner, including community and inpatient services
To have a role in the assessment and further development of individual service users skills. This may include transportation of service users to support them to access appropriate service/facilities
To keep accurate records of tasks undertaken, observation and events concerning service users and to report to other members of the team, as appropriate, and to prepare reports on individual service users, as requested
To maintain and promote good communication and working relationships both within the team and with colleagues from other agencies
To develop a knowledge and understanding of the specialist needs of individual service users, and the approaches used in their care plans
Support the assessment and management of service user care needs through initial data collection, monitoring of service users progress, feedback, discussion, and reports and in care reviews with the clinical team.
Assist in the physical health care assessment of service users and report any changes in service users physical health to the registered practitioner, based on agreed protocol and supported competencies.
Provide information of health promotion and healthy living as appropriate to individual need
To undertake and assist in the organisation of the day to day smooth running of the service
Contribute towards the ongoing quality of service and care and identify any risk issues in relation to the service users health and social care need
