Healthcare Assistant (Band 3) - A&E - Aintree Hospital
| Posting date: | 03 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £22,816 - £24,336 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 May 2024 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L9 7AL |
| Company: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6177114/287-AMED-82-24 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
We are seeking band 3 Healthcare Assistants to the Emergency Department at our Aintree Hospital site. The Aintree site is the Major Trauma Centre for the region.
You will have the opportunity to work in all the areas of the Emergency Department.
We believe in excellent patient care and would like to recruit dynamic individuals who believe in our trust values and will ensure that every patient receives gold standard care.
The workload throughout the department is very varied and interesting with no two days being the same. The successful candidate must be dynamic, possess excellent communication skills, and have a high sense of professionalism and a strong belief in the value of teamwork.
**Please note this vacancy will close once sufficient applications have been received**
Exciting opportunities have arisen for band 3 health care assistants in accident and emergency at Aintree Hospital.
We are looking for individuals who are passionate about providing high standards of nursing care and are keen to develop further. You must be a team player who has excellent communication and organisation skills.
To hear about the exciting work we do from our dedicated Trust employees and departments, for a future you could be a part of, please visit our Trust Facebook page by searching Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click here
https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
Follow us on Social Media:
Facebook – Liverpool University Hospitals Careers
Instagram - @LUHFTcareers
Twitter - @LUHFTcareers
• Participates in all aspects of patient care with particular attention to personal hygiene and grooming.
• Provision of patients toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
• Support of patients in managing incontinence and promotion of continence.
• The recording of a patients fluid intake and output using fluid balance charts
• Preparation and serving of patients meals, drinks and snacks.
• Assisting/feeding patients if necessary.
• The recording of patients dietary intake when indicated in the patients plan of care
• Enable patients to maintain/improve their mobility by use of exercise and mobility appliances.
• Assist in the prevention of pressure sore development as directed by the registered nurse in conjunction with the patients plan of care.
• Carry out any movement and handling within the safe practice guidelines from your mandatory training and in relation to the patients manual handling plan.
• Obtaining specimens from patients for ward or laboratory testing
• Insertion and removal of cannulae and catheters
• Venepuncture.
• Obtaining observations from patients and liaising with registered nurse.
• Undertake the dressing of non-complex wounds (in accordance with identified competencies and in conjunction with the plan of care)
• Prepare and maintain environments for clinical treatments and investigations
• Prepare patients for treatment, investigations or procedures including offering support, answering questions appropriate to own knowledge/experience and assisting in recovery.
• Collection of blood products from laboratory as requested.
• Chaperoning and escorting patients to clinical departments within the hospital and to other hospitals for investigations. Assist registered nurse in performing last offices
• Reputation for high standard of patient care
• Demonstrates a willingness a capability to undertake NVQ Level 3
Please also refer to the Job Description attached
This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Apr 2024
We are seeking band 3 Healthcare Assistants to the Emergency Department at our Aintree Hospital site. The Aintree site is the Major Trauma Centre for the region.
You will have the opportunity to work in all the areas of the Emergency Department.
We believe in excellent patient care and would like to recruit dynamic individuals who believe in our trust values and will ensure that every patient receives gold standard care.
The workload throughout the department is very varied and interesting with no two days being the same. The successful candidate must be dynamic, possess excellent communication skills, and have a high sense of professionalism and a strong belief in the value of teamwork.
**Please note this vacancy will close once sufficient applications have been received**
Exciting opportunities have arisen for band 3 health care assistants in accident and emergency at Aintree Hospital.
We are looking for individuals who are passionate about providing high standards of nursing care and are keen to develop further. You must be a team player who has excellent communication and organisation skills.
To hear about the exciting work we do from our dedicated Trust employees and departments, for a future you could be a part of, please visit our Trust Facebook page by searching Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click here
https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
Follow us on Social Media:
Facebook – Liverpool University Hospitals Careers
Instagram - @LUHFTcareers
Twitter - @LUHFTcareers
• Participates in all aspects of patient care with particular attention to personal hygiene and grooming.
• Provision of patients toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
• Support of patients in managing incontinence and promotion of continence.
• The recording of a patients fluid intake and output using fluid balance charts
• Preparation and serving of patients meals, drinks and snacks.
• Assisting/feeding patients if necessary.
• The recording of patients dietary intake when indicated in the patients plan of care
• Enable patients to maintain/improve their mobility by use of exercise and mobility appliances.
• Assist in the prevention of pressure sore development as directed by the registered nurse in conjunction with the patients plan of care.
• Carry out any movement and handling within the safe practice guidelines from your mandatory training and in relation to the patients manual handling plan.
• Obtaining specimens from patients for ward or laboratory testing
• Insertion and removal of cannulae and catheters
• Venepuncture.
• Obtaining observations from patients and liaising with registered nurse.
• Undertake the dressing of non-complex wounds (in accordance with identified competencies and in conjunction with the plan of care)
• Prepare and maintain environments for clinical treatments and investigations
• Prepare patients for treatment, investigations or procedures including offering support, answering questions appropriate to own knowledge/experience and assisting in recovery.
• Collection of blood products from laboratory as requested.
• Chaperoning and escorting patients to clinical departments within the hospital and to other hospitals for investigations. Assist registered nurse in performing last offices
• Reputation for high standard of patient care
• Demonstrates a willingness a capability to undertake NVQ Level 3
Please also refer to the Job Description attached
This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Apr 2024