Community Health Care Assistant | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,008 - £25,553 Per annum including HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 June 2024 |
| Location: | Farnborough, GU14 0NP |
| Company: | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6303102/151-RO25 |
Summary
We are looking to recruit an Health Care Assistant into the Farnborough Community nursing team.
Working in the community you will be providing care to housebound patients with complex care needs, enabling patients to receive the care they need in their own home.
This is an excellent opportunity if you are thinking of joining a community team or broadening and gaining new experiences. We are looking for an enthusiastic, caring & motivated professional with excellent clinical & communication skills, who has the ability to work autonomously, supporting the team lead to manage the case load and staff development.
The post holders must have relevant experience in health care and demonstrate a proactive and positive attitude to learning the skills required to fulfil the role.
To work within the multi-disciplinary Integrated Care Team that delivers community based services to a GP Practice population, undertaking nursing tasks within agreed parameters, set out by Community nursing sister/Team Leader.
As the HCA in a community nursing team you will be expected to visit patients in their own homes or potentially a clinic setting; therefore will need access to a vehicle for work with business car insurance in place.
Mileage is claimable via the trust expenses system.
The scope of the role will focus on supporting patients at home for nursing care, such as wound care, pressure ulcer care and management, leg ulcer management, catheter care, venepuncture, continence assessments and other delegated tasks.
There are opportunities to develop other skills within community nursing
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Please refer to the job description and person specification for further information.
Informal visits are welcome.
This advert closes on Wednesday 22 May 2024