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Community Senior Healthcare Assistant | Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Job details
Posting date: 23 May 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £23,949 - £26,282 Per Annum Pro Rata
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 22 June 2024
Location: Thundersley, SS7 3AT
Company: Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6324807/364-A-7752

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Summary

Community Senior Healthcare Assistant
Band 4

Are you an experience Health Care Assistant with community experience that is motivated and is passionate about supporting patients in their own home?

Are you a team player with proven planning and organisational skills?

Then join our dynamic and forward thinking integrated nursing team and make an important contribution to the delivery of high standards of care to patients, their families and carers within the South East Essex locality of Canvey Island and Benfleet.

The successful candidate will provide clinical support in order to prevent patients having unnecessary hospital admissions, enabling them to stay at home where possible and work with wider integrated community teams to facilitate and support patients in their own home.

You will work within a dynamic team lead by a District Nurse. Canvey District Nursing Team have won an award for their innovative care to patients in the community and strive to continue providing the best quality of care.

Applications are welcomed from HCA’s with a minimum of 1 years community/hospital experience or who hold an Associate Practitioner qualification.

Various shifts 8am-9pm Mon-Sun

Excellent opportunities to progress in nursing career from Nursing Associate or Associate Practitioner courses which lead onto the Nursing Degree.





EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;

• Season Ticket Loans

• NHS discounts for staff

• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities

• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme

• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas

• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work

• Day One Flexible Employer

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.

To support the work of the registered practitioners in the community nursing team.

Maintain excellent communication with patients, relatives and members of the team and multi-professionals, demonstrating a variety in communication skills in accordance with patient needs.

To perform area specific clinical competencies such as:
• Health promotion
• Female and male catheterisation
• Intramuscular injections
• Parental feeding management
• Administration of enemas and provision of advice re: bowel care
• Wound care e.g. complex wound care as delegated by the registered practitioner


This advert closes on Thursday 30 May 2024

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