Healthcare Assistant (JHRU) Leigh, Dorset, South West England, England
Job description
We require support workers for the Jean Heyes Reablement Unit based at Leigh Infirmary.
The unit supports individuals to achieve specific goals which enable safe discharge back into the community or their own home.
Full and part time is available across Monday to Sunday with day and night shifts. Experience in a similar role is essential.
An Enhanced DBS with Adults' Barred List checks will be obtained during pre-employment checks.
This post involves contact with patients and families face to face within a community setting. Therefore it cannot be ruled out that the postholder may come in to contact with people who have COVID-19, although the Trust provides PPE and takes all reasonable steps to minimise risk.
This vacancy may close early if sufficient applications are received. Previous applicants need not apply.
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, enthusiastic staff to work as part of our multidisciplinary team.
The Jean Heyes Reablement Unit is run by a team of dedicated specialist community practitioners who are experts in providing the most appropriate care for our frail & elderly population.
Applicants will be required to see patients and families face to face within a community setting. Therefore it cannot be ruled out that they may come in to contact with people who have COVID-19, although the Trust provides PPE and takes all reasonable steps to ask patients with symptoms to cancel appointments.
An Enhanced DBS with Adults' Barred List check will be obtained during pre-employment checks.
Choose Well – Choose WWL
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
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, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information available by contacting [email protected] where you can also ask about how to access vaccinations.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Post holders are required to work independently with regard to routine, delegated tasks, following established good practice and refer non-routine tasks appropriately. Work is supervised and evaluated on a routine basis.
- To ensure that documentation is completed in accordance with Trust and departmental requirements.
- To be responsible for some degree of housekeeping and stock control on the Unit
- To communicate with patients and/or carers to provide reassurance and promote understanding
- Adhere to the Trusts Policies and Procedures
- Communicate effectively in the receiving and providing of written, non-verbal and verbal information.
- Maintain and adhere to relevant confidentiality, Data Protection Trust Policies applicable to role.
- Ensure accurate records are kept.
- Report complaints, accidents and untoward incidents according to Trust Policy.
- Identify and report any risk management issues.
- Observe rules governing health and safety as stipulated by the Trust Safety Policy.
- Develop Information Technology (IT) skills in line with Trust Information and Technology Strategy.
- To attend any in-service training programmes as appropriate
- To take part in the individual appraisal and performance review programme and to actively participate in supervision.
- To maintain own continuing professional development (CPD) by keeping up to date any developments and incorporate them as necessary into your work.
- To respect the individuality, values, cultural and religious diversity of patients.
- To exercise good time management, punctuality and consistent and reliable attendance.
- To assist community assessment unit staff in the induction and training of new staff.
- To be aware of Health and Safety aspects of your work and implement any policies, which may be required to improve the safety of your work area, including your prompt recording and reporting of accidents to senior stage and ensuring that equipment use if safe.
- To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date documentation, in line with legal and departmental requirements.
- To comply with the organisational and departmental policies and procedures.
- To undertake departmental administrative duties, as required.
- To undertake any other duties that might be considered appropriate by the relevant registered nurse/Team Leader, or Community Therapy Services Lead.
Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 – the post holder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all of their actions. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions and reporting of all incidents, near misses and hazards, and a statutory duty of care for their own personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.
