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The Discharge Lounge are currently recruiting for a full-time Healthcare Assistant to join our established team.

As part of your role, you will be required to work under direction and supervision of the registered nurse. You will support and assist the delivery of high quality, safe, dignified, and compassionate healthcare, to all patients.

The Discharge Lounge team work closely with the Trust's bed management team to provide safe timely transfers of patients to our unit.

If you think you have the relevant skills to join our happy, forward-thinking team, then please get in touch.

• To assist ward staff in preparing their patients for transfer to the Discharge Lounge.
• You must ensure that the patient has all their personal belongings including any equipment plus their TT0's and Discharge Summary if these are already available on the ward.
• You will assist in patient care and other related duties under the supervision of a Registered nurse for those patients waiting in the Discharge Lounge.
• To carry out routine duties, including activities in which the post holder has been assessed as competent by a Registered Nurse.
• To contribute to a team approach to patient care in conjunction with nursing colleagues and all members of the multi-disciplinary team, and work in accordance with the hospital policies always.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King’s Lynn is located near some of the most beautiful scenery in the UK, along the north Norfolk coast, and not far from Sandringham House.

We provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based healthcare services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire.

We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers, approximately 530 beds, and a helipad for air ambulances. We work with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services, including as part of regional partnership and network models of care, such as the trauma network.

In February 2022 the significant progress that has been made at QEH was recognised by the Care Quality Commission who rated the Trust as ‘Good’ in all of the core services they inspected. They recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures).

For further details about this vacancy, please see the attached job description and person specification.