Healthcare Assistant - Bluebell

Job summary

Working Full time or Part time : 37.5 Hours Per week/ 30 hours per week

We are recruiting health care assistants to be based on Bluebell Ward at Ellesmere Port Hospital.

Blubell Ward is an 24 bedded general rehabilitation ward, You will be supporting patients who have experienced a period of ill health or injury to regain their independence and help support to rehabilitate them back to doing the things that are important to them.

As a health care assistant, you will be working in a friendly supportive environment, delivering care, and assisting in maintaining therapy to our patients whilst working alongside our experienced nursing and therapy team.

Ellesmere Port Hospital is a 3 warded rehabilitation hospital, whose aim is to deliver patient centered care, we are currently undergoing development change, expanding our ward base and criteria of patients, and we therefore need enthusiastic, caring, and forward-thinking staff to join our friendly established team.

Whether you are new to health care, thinking of returning to work or want a career change then this is the opportunity for you. If you want to improve the quality of life for the patients you support, work within a fast-paced friendly team and be empowered to make change, a career in our Intermediate Care Service will be for you.

Main duties of the job

An excellent induction and opportunity to develop a career in the NHS, with regular informal and formal training opportunities

Encouragement and support for those applicants who are looking to progress within the NHS

A supportive and friendly induction

A friendly and supportive working environment (see our Trust Behavioral Standards)

About us

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.