Healthcare Assistant

Job summary

Are you passionate about delivering high quality and safe care to our service users?

Henderson Rehab Unit is a 20 bedded Rehabilitation Unit where we admit patients from the local acute hospitals. We provide intensive rehabilitation for predominately older people following episodes of acute illness and injury, with the aim to ensure timely discharge.

We actively promote a multi-disciplinary model, where nursing staff work closely with Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Social Workers; ensuring the patient are kept at the centre of decision making.

We are looking for experienced Healthcare Assistants with excellent communication skills, a positive attitude, and respect for patients, carers, and colleagues to work with us to create an environment conducive to care. Some experience would be desirable but training can be offered for the right candidate.

So if you are willing to go the extra mile to make patients feel important and support more junior staff then we want to hear from you.

The post holder must be prepared to work a variety of long days, short days, some weekends and nights and some bank holidays as this is a 24 hour, 7 day service.

Main duties of the job

As an experienced Healthcare Assistant, you will be required to undertake care and health tasks with minimal supervision but with additional advice from more experienced team colleagues should you need it. You will be responsible for achieving your duties which will typically be routine and require some forward planning. You will work with other staff whilst being responsible for ensuring that the basic needs of service users are met.

You will also provide practical and therapeutic support to help deliver wrap around care that leads to best outcomes for service users.

This role has an emphasis on the following areas:

• Providing, and ensuring that, a high standard of nursing care, is maintained
• Monitoring and maintaining standards of care
• Participating in clinical supervision and in team learning and development
• Delivery of care to meet patients needs
• Health promotion

Routine Tasks will involve:

• Assist in carrying out planned care
• Assisting patients to meet their daily care needs
• Carrying out simple dressings following assessment of skin and wounds/pressure area care
• Contribute to the monitoring of care
• Completion of charts
• Report any changes in the patients condition to more senior members of staff
• Recording in the patients notes as appropriate
• Assist with the induction, of new staff
• Collect specimens of urine, sputum and faeces as requested
• Respect all aspects of confidentiality
• Escort patients requiring special investigations to other departments

About us

We are Sirona care & health, a Community Interest Company committed to providing local communities with a range of high-quality specialist health care services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. For us, its about the personal approach; we take pride in what we do and deliver the high standard of care that we would expect for ourselves and our families.

At Sirona, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of colleagues, service users and communities. We therefore welcome applications from all those who feel they have the skills and attributes we are seeking.

Benefits:

We offer NHS Agenda for Change Salary, Terms and Conditions and an NHS pension scheme plus much more! Please see the benefits leaflet attached to this advert for more details.

Additional Information:

Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received prior to the advertised closing date.

Employer details

Employer name

Sirona Care & Health CIC

Address

Henderson Rehabilitation Unit, Grace Care Centre

Whitebridge Gardens

Thornbury

BS35 2FR

Employer's website

https://www.sirona-cic.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Sirona Care & Health CIC

Address

Henderson Rehabilitation Unit, Grace Care Centre

Whitebridge Gardens

Thornbury

BS35 2FR

Employer's website

https://www.sirona-cic.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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