Healthcare Assistant

Job summary

We are looking for a high caliber, motivated and enthusiastic Health Care Assistant who is keen to develop their career. This post could be for you if you are looking for a challenging role and are able to provide high quality care within our highly skilled and forward thinking multi-disciplinary teams.

This is an exciting time to join our team as we have recently moved into the new multi-million pound refurbished hospital, which will ensure we will continue to provide high quality services for the local community.

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is a forward thinking and dynamic NHS Trust with a real commitment to ensure the delivery of high quality, person-centered and compassionate care to our patients.

We value our staff and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills and competencies to deliver the highest quality of care.

Whitby is a pretty traditional seaside town in North Yorkshire, situated on the East coast at the mouth of the River Esk.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the role include:

• Assists qualified staff by undertaking personal care duties for patients.
• Reports the patient condition to qualified staff.
• Undertake delegated work of the multidisciplinary team to assist in the provision of individualised planned patient care under indirect supervision. Care tasks may include managing the day-to-day needs of patients by providing help with personal care, meals and mobility.
• Work as part of a team which supports the operation of the ward 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and will therefore be required to work shifts including nights, days and weekends

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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