Healthcare Assistant | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,625 - £25,674 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 June 2025 |
| Location: | Deal, CT14 9UA |
| Company: | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7201877/846-7201877-CF |
Summary
Urgent Care Services provides short term health, therapy and care support to enable service users to remain in the community / home environment. This may include treating acutely unwell people that would otherwise require hospital admission, and also supports hospital discharges. The service convers 24 hours a day 365 days a year.
Care provided at night includes End of life care, catheter care and other urgent care that is unplanned and cannot wait until the following day. This care is provided by a night nursing team.
Home is nationally evidenced to be the best place to recover and regain independence. Enablement and rehabilitation will be the priority focus with active participation from service users in order to achieve
maximum independence.
You will be a core member of the Urgent Care Service where you will be delivering care, both clinical and non-clinical to patients/ clients. You’ll also be key in supporting patients with their own self-care and independence
• Following clinical care plans and recording your actions into an electronic patient record in a concise way
• Basic observations including blood pressure, pulse, oxygen saturations, respirations, temperature and NEWS2
• Personal care - washing and dressing.
• Supporting mobility using hoists and mobility equipment
• Medication administration prompting
• Catheter care - changing catheter bags and changing female catheters
• Stoma care
• Supporting fluid and nutrition
• Calibration of blood glucose machines and taking blood glucose levels
• Risk assessments to monitor skin integrity
• Supporting patients to get up following a fall (using falls equipment)
• Sub cut injections
• Venepuncture
• Simple wound dressings
• Urinalysis
• Managing specimens ensuring robust delivery to drop off / pick up points across the locality
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences
We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission
The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
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As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via kentchft.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.
This advert closes on Sunday 8 Jun 2025