Healthcare Assistant (UHCW & St Cross Hospital, Rugby) Coventry, England
Job description
Support the Registered Nursing staff in providing assistance and personal care for patients within University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire Trust across both sites at University Hospital Coventry & Hospital of St Cross, Rugby.
Please be advised that the assessment centre and interviews are due to be held on 1st April.
Do you want to become part of a team who make a difference on a daily basis, providing high quality patient centred care?
We are looking to recruit passionate and enthusiastic people with health or social care experience to become healthcare assistants in our organisation. If you are passionate about caring for others and are ready to begin a rewarding career with us, we would love to hear from you.
You will become a valued colleague at UHCW with your development needs being supported by a robust induction and Ready to care programme, with an Advocate team who will work with you to help you achieve your career goals.
If you have excellent communication skills, a “can do” attitude, and hold an NVQ II in care or are you willing to work towards this qualification, this could be the right role for you.
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.
We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.
Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.
We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence®designated organisation – please click the link for further details about this prestigious award.Pathway To Excellence ® - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)
By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.
The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.
You must be aged 16 or over and have previous Healthcare Assistant experience: HCA-Band 2-£20,270-£21, 318 + enhancements
Be a Resident in the UK/ EEA for the last three years
Must NOT be in any form of formal government-funded education.
As a band 2 HCA you must have previous experience of working within a care environment and already hold a level 2 health and social care related qualification or be willing to work towards this qualification.
Full and Part Time Posts available. The salary will be pro rata for part time staff.
Successful applicants will be placed on a waiting list until a suitable vacancy becomes available in the Trust.
Both our sites at University Hospital Coventry and Hospital of St Cross, Rugby currently have vacancies available across numerous specialties (listed below),
Rugby St Cross
Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Cedar Ward
- Day Surgery
- Mulberry Ward
- Oak Ward
- Hoskyn Ward
- Treatment Room
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Plastic Surgery
- Neurosurgery
- Ophthalmic Surgery
- Coronary Care Unit
- Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Gastroenterology
- SAU
- Head and Neck Surgery
- General Surgery
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Diabetes & Endocrinology
- Care of the Elderly - Ward 20 and Ward 40
- Respiratory
- Medicine
- Infectious Diseases
- Stroke
- Neurosciences
- Oncology and Haematology:
- Chemotherapy Suite
- Haemodialysis
- Ward 34 Haematology
- Ward 35 Oncology
- Main Theatres
- General Critical Care
- Endoscopy
- Urology Specialist Team
- City of Coventry Outpatients Department
- Acute Medicine Village - The co-located Acute Medicine Footprint is part of the Emergency Medicine group and consists of the Medical Assessment Unit, Same Day Emergency Care, Frailty Unit and our Short Stay Ward. We are a front door service care for a large variety of patients and conditions. Our aim is to ensure patients get the right treatment, in the right place at the right time. We have a skilled workforce with a large skillset- as a HCA working in our footprint you can expect to gain skills such as: ECG, Venepuncture, Cannulation, Blood Glucose. All of our HCA’s are encouraged to take on Link Role a become a mini expert for their chosen topic and support with educating their colleagues. We have the benefits of an exclusive Practice Development team who will be on hand to support you and enhance your skillset and knowledge.
If your application is shortlisted, you will be invited to attend a Recruitment Centre. This Recruitment Centre is intended to show you what it’s really like to be a healthcare assistant, and to provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate how you would provide excellent quality care to our patients and their families within a modern health care facility.
The Recruitment centre will involve a basic literacy test and if you are successful you will go forward to an interview. If you are successful at interview, and there isn’t a current vacancy that meets your needs, we’ll keep in touch and update you as jobs arise. If we are unable to allocate you to your requirements your application will be withdrawn.
Closing Date:
This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.
Recruiting to Values:
To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and Behaviours Framework and Values Based Recruitment Factsheet which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
For further details of the job role please see attached job description.
