Healthcare Assistant ICU

Job summary

THE ROYAL SURREY HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Guildford

Critical Care Department

Band 2 HCA 37.5 hours per week

The Critical Care department is undergoing continuous development and currently provides a service caring for patients in Intensive Care and Acute Dependency level one Care.

The Department has a vacancy for an HCA at Band 2 full time to provide support for qualified Nurses throughout the Department. The successful candidates will have the opportunity to rotate through all the areas within the department gaining experience in caring for patients at level 2 and 3.

Previous experience would be an advantage but is not essential as comprehensive Trust and local induction/training is available.

Suitable candidates will ideally have

* Excellent observational skills

* Effective communication skills

* Desire to develop new skills and knowledge

* Willingness to undertake formal qualifications

Interviews: W/B 02/8/2023

For further information or an informal discussion, please do not hesitate to contact the Critical Care Matrons on Ext 6731

Jackie Yeruva (bleep 0210) or Susie Gibbon (bleep 0207)

Main duties of the job

Being a Healthcare Support Worker

Youll provide a variety of care and support for hospital patients as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Clinical tasks, like collecting samples, swabs and recording patients fluid intake/output.
• Ensuring patients safety and comfort, supporting them with daily activities, including helping them to eat, drink and maintain personal hygiene, and using equipment to move and assist in your care of them.
• Observing temperature, pulse and blood pressure, maintaining patient records and reporting any abnormalities to senior colleagues.

Your Training, Development & Progression

Training is provided in both the classroom and the hospital, for those with limited or no experience, this is a three week fulltime course. If you have previous experience you may be eligible for our 6 day Fulltime Fast Track.

Please note you will be asked to bring three forms of original ID to interview.

About us

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is a friendly, supportive, busy but welcoming acute and community Trust that is ambitious about developing our services and your career.

Our compassionate, caring and friendly colleagues make up our Royal Surrey family and are at the heart of what we do. We all have a passion for learning, continuous improvement and excelling together through innovation, research and development. There are over 4,500 members of our Royal Surrey family.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in the community and homes across Guildford and Waverley.

We have received an overall Good rating from the CQC with Medical care (including older peoples care), End of Life Care and Maternity services being deemed Outstanding by the CQC. We are investing in our colleagues through our health and wellbeing programme and a commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years.

There has never been a better time to join us.

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Egerton Road

Guildford

Surrey

GU2 7XX

Employer's website

https://www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Egerton Road

Guildford

Surrey

GU2 7XX

Employer's website

https://www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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