Healthcare Assistant - Community Diabetes Service Oldham, England
Job description
Job overview
The Oldham Community Diabetes service is a multidisciplinary team that provides specialist diabetes care within a community setting closer to patients homes. The service also provides education sessions to patients, GP’s and primary care clinicians.
The service provides
- A better experience overall
- Excellent quality of care
- Improved co-ordination of care
- Reduce risk of hospital admission with diabetes related problems
- Specialist diabetes care closer to home for the majority of people
- Education sessions to patients, GP’s and primary care clinicians
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated healthcare assistant with excellent communication skills to join the Diabetes Team as a Band 3 Health Care Assistant.
You will work closely with the Consultants, Clinical Nurse Specialist’s and other multidisciplinary team members playing an important role in the delivery of effective care and management of patients with Diabetes in a clinical setting or patients own home.
Education to Patient’s on blood glucose monitoring will also form part of this role.
Opportunities for further development and training within the speciality may be available.
The work will take place in a variety of community settings including patients homes, nursing/residential homes and intermediate care units.
The post holder will often work in the community as a lone worker, in line with organisational lone worker policy.
Main duties of the job
You must be able to work autonomously and organise your workload effectively.
You will need to be flexible and will be required to work within a variety of clinic locations as well as home visits within the Oldham borough.
You should hold an NVQ level 2 qualification in healthcare
Proficient in Phlebotomy
Good communication skills
Working for our organisation
Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world’s first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts. Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital. As a designated major trauma unit for Greater Manchester and one of only three vascular centres in Greater Manchester, Oldham is a specialist hospital for acute surgery and provides state-of-the-art onsite pathology services to the North West.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
In line with the Trust’s Single Equality Scheme we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, religion, marital status, social back ground or trade union membership.
Person specification
Essential Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A good standard of general education
Desirable criteria
- NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent qualification
- Basic Life Support Course
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous healthcare experience
- Good communication skills (written and verbal)
- Understanding of how illness affects individuals and their cares/families
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Willingness to work flexible shifts
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of the acquisition of relevant skills associated with the role i.e venepuncture
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/covid-19-vaccination-programme where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.
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We reserve the right to close the online vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and return your application form as soon as possible.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from everyone. We value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge, and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of our local community. If you are disabled and require reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact the Recruitment Team to discuss.
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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.
