Healthcare Assistant - Colorectal/Stoma Care

Job summary

Join Our Team as a Band 3 Healthcare Assistant (Dependent on Qualifications and Skills)

Are you passionate about providing compassionate care and making a meaningful impact in patients' lives? We are looking to recruit Healthcare assistants in the specialised department of Colorectal/Stoma Care

This is an exciting and unique specialist support worker post with a wide range of responsibility within the Colorectal/Stoma Care service in Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The prime function of the role is to provide assistance in supporting the delivery of high standards of nursing care for patients with colorectal diseases and their families.

What We Are Looking For

• Level 2 Intermediate Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship(or equivalent),ora minimum of12 months' experienceworking as a Healthcare Assistant
• Completion of the Care Certificate, or a willingness to complete this within3 months of commencing employment
• Clinical skills and competencies relevant to the department. (Applicants who do not yet hold these competencies may be appointed as aBand 2 Trainee Healthcare Assistant, with progression toBand 3 upon successful completion of training)

Main duties of the job

• Assist with the care of patient's physical and personal needs, ensuring a high standard of care is achieved.

• Be responsible for maintaining a high standard of care in accordance with the Trust's enhanced role policies.

• Provision of ward based stoma care and education for patients, staff and carers.

• Stoma Care stock control.

• Assist in the preparation of nurse led clinics.

• Provide assistance and support to the Colorectal/Stoma Care CNS.

• Participate in the implementation of prescribed care/treatment as delegated by the Colorectal/Stoma Care CNS.

• Assist and support practitioners and patients during clinical treatment and procedures.

• Sustain and build on strong communication links with the MDT and wards caring colorectal/stoma care patients.

• Play a role in the multidisciplinary team to participate in planned treatment and care of individual patients.

• Ensure the maintenance of accurate records, having due regard to legal aspects, confidentiality and management information requirements.

• Chaperone patients while undergoing medical examination and various procedure.

• Participation and facilitation of the enhanced recovery programme.

• Telephone triage.

• Be responsible for making patient information packs and maintaining a good stock of all patient information in the Colorectal Department and in out-patient clinic areas.

• Support anxious patients and carers particularly on the ward.

• Basic teaching programme to Health Care Assistants.

About us

DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.

At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.

As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:o Extensive range of learning opportunitieso NHS Pension Schemeo Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditionso Comprehensive health and wellbeing supporto NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice schemeo Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.