East Coast Community Healthcare CIC

Community Healthcare Assistant

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Healthcare Assistant to join our Primary Care Home, delivering high quality nursing care to the population of Gorleston and surrounding villages. A Primary Care Home (PCH) is a multidisciplinary team working closely with GP's and other community partners to provide an excellent standard of person centered care to adults in their own homes, residential care or clinic settings, supporting patients to self manage whenever possible.

Previous experience of health or social caring for patients in the community would be advantageous.

We will support you to transfer your existing knowledge and develop new clinical skills to become a Community Health Care Assistant. As a Health Care Assistant you will work develop skills in simple wound care, pressure ulcer prevention and care, phlebotomy, and supporting the registered nurses in the delivery of palliative and end of life care. The successful candidate will have NVQ level 3 in Health and Social care or a commitment to completing this qualification.

Main duties of the job

The Health Care Assistant will work with other members of the Primary Care Home multidisciplinary team to provide planned and unplanned community services.

The post holder will be part of a team trained in a range of skills, to deliver clinical interventions for patients with a wide range of health care needs in a variety of community settings.

The role requires the successful applicant to visit patients in their own homes or residential care setting.

You will be requried to lone work, and drive yourself around the community to complete your visits.

Community Health Care Assistants perform phlebotomy, non-complex wound care and delegated insulin adminstration for patients with stable diabetes control.

The post is upto full time, worked as core shifts between 08:30-16:30. Weekends and Bank Holidays are worked as allocated.

About us

ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.

We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.

At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.

We encourage you to apply as early as possible as this job may close earlier than the advertised closing date once enough applications have been received.

If you would like to discuss this position further please contact Lead Nurse Marie Willgress 07887803869, informal visits are welcomed.

Date posted

25 September 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,071 to £25,674 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

B9849-096-24

Job locations

Yare House

Morton Peto Road

Great Yarmouth

Norfolk

NR31 0LT

Job description

Job responsibilities

Contribute to, support and promote ECCHs, strategic direction, values and culture in relation to proactive and reactive services.

Communicate effectively with patients, relatives and carers, respecting patient confidentiality with privacy and respect for diverse cultural backgrounds and requirements.

Communicate routine information to patients, relatives or carers, using skills of persuasion, reassurance, tact and empathy as required.

To support relatives at all times and be aware of the effects of illness on the family.

Enable individuals and their families to express their needs and preferences and take appropriate action to overcome barriers to communication.

To promote confidence in the patient by means of appropriate standards of appearance, behaviour and attitudes

To safeguard the confidentiality of all personally sensitive information.

Plan and organise a range of delegated clinical activities which might include phlebotomy, in a wide range of settings to ensure best practice is delivered.

Contribute to the clinical governance agenda through participation in clinical audit.

Create an environment conducive to effective working, respecting and supporting staff to deliver high quality clinical services.

Work as part of the multidisciplinary Primary Care Home to deliver planned and unplanned community services.

Work collaboratively with residential home colleagues to promote high standards of healthcare.

Work with patients towards self-care and independence.

Participate in caring for patients at the end of life when appropriate.

To implement the care as planned taking into account own competencies.

To deliver safe patient centred care within a variety of settings.

Take, record and report blood pressure, respiration, pulse rate, oxygen saturation levels. Be able to recognise the deteriorating condition of a patient

Undertake and record MUST and Waterlow assessments and take appropriate action

Be able to participate in wound care, skin tear pathway, venepuncture, collection of specimens or diabetic foot assessment as required.

To report any concerns or changes in the patients condition to a registered nurse or appropriate Health care Professional without delay.

Ensure a high standard of record keeping is achieved in line with ECCH standards.

Engage in personal development, maintain competence, knowledge and skills commensurate with role

Take responsibility for the safe use of clinical equipment,

Contribute to the effective use of resources.

Report any concerns or changes in a patients condition to a registered health care professional without delay.

All roles within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC require staff to demonstrate our Values and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide to patients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staff should consider these as an essential part of their job role.

Our Values outline the core behaviours that we can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word CARE. These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.

Underpinning our Values are our Signature Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a strong culture. Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.