Senior Health Care Assistant - Renal | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 22 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £22,816 - £24,336 Per Annum, Pro Rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 21 June 2024 |
| Location: | Chorley, PR7 1PP |
| Company: | Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6333079/438-PB1139-A |
Summary
Band 3 -Senior Health Care Assistant-Renal Home Therapy Opportunity
This is an excellent opportunity to join the Renal Home Therapy Service in Lancashire. We have a vacancy for Band 3 Health Care Assistant 30 hours (4 days per week) and are seeking individuals who would like to expand their knowledge in renal services or develop new skills. The post involves the on-going education and training of patients and relatives on peritoneal or home haemodialysis to enable them to dialyse independently at home.
You will be required to work across the hospital-based training unit at Chorley Hospital as well as the community setting covering Lancashire and South Cumbria. Unit opening hours are 07:00-18:00 Monday to Friday. Shift times are 7:00 –15:00, 8:00 -16:00 and 10:00-18:00.
You will also be highly motivated with excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills and can work independently as a lone worker and within a multi-disciplinary team setting.
The role requires you to work across all sites of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at Chorley and Preston Hospitals. The main site being Chorley Home Therapies unit.
In return we can offer a huge commitment to your ongoing development.
The main role of the band 3 Health Care Assistant will be to provide an Assisted Peritoneal Dialysis service, peritoneal dialysis training and providing support to trained staff members when teaching patients to perform their own haemodialysis.
The service also provides an acute drop-in service for the home dialysis patients. The Home Therapies Chorley team will work closely with the home therapies team based in Kendal to provide an equitable service for our patients. Car driver would be advantageous as the community setting covers a large geographical area.
Our values define who we are and how we behave.
• Caring and compassionate. We treat everyone with dignity and respect, doing everything we can to show we care.
• Recognising individuality. We respect, value and respond to every person’s individual needs.
• Seeking to involve. We will always involve you in making decisions about your care and treatment, and are always open and honest.
• Team working. We work together as one team, and involve patients, families, and other services, to provide the best care possible.
• Taking personal responsibility. We each take personal responsibility to give the highest standards of care and deliver a service we can always be proud of.
• Provide good quality personalised care in accordance with agreed local and national standards.
• Take samples from patients for testing or dispatching eg: Urine, sputum, faeces, MRSA swabs, blood sugars
• Assist patients to meet their individual care plan
• Undertake clinical duties relevant to clinical area following achievement of competencies.
• Assist to maintain patient safety, conforming to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Assist to maintain patient safety, conforming to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Contribute to maintaining safe, clean, and productive care environment, compliant with standards for hygiene and cleanliness.
For more information please see attached the Job Description & Person Specification
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Jun 2024