Health Care Assistant - Children's

Job summary

Job Summary

Are you a passionate and dedicated healthcare assistant looking for a new adventure? Do you want to be part of our growing team at an exciting time? We are recruiting Healthcare Assistants to join our dynamic and forward-thinking team at Bradford Royal Infirmary.

Children's Services is currently going through a transformational change with the merging of nursing teams across the Paediatric Emergency Department and the Children and Young People's Unit.

Children's Emergency Department (ED)

Children's ED is a busy department who currently see large volumes of children every year in an area specifically dedicated to children. Children who are attending with urgent care complaints are streamed straight to this area.

Children's Clinical Decision Area (CCDA) and Short Stay

The Children's Decision Area sees children referred from GPs, children with direct access and children sent from ED requiring a further assessment. The short stay area is for children who require a prolonged period of observation but who are unlikely to need a full admission to hospital.

Main duties of the job

Ward 30 (Children's Inpatient Unit)

Ward 30 is a Children's Inpatient Unit that was purpose built in 2016. The unit includes 35 inpatient beds, a two-bedded stabilisation area and an accessible bathroom with all the mod-cons including a bath that can be moved up and down. Each bed space also has state of the art bedside monitoring.

The successful candidate will be offered the opportunity to work across all areas with your preferred area being your main place of work.

A team of clinical skills educators will be on hand with a supportive and robust training package, including:

• Obtaining physiological observations
• Meeting the care needs of children
• Venepuncture & cannulation
• ECG monitoring
• Bladder scanning
• Blood glucose & ketone monitoring
• Urinalysis
• Care of a child with a tracheostomy
• Caring for children requiring long term ventilation

About us

Main duties of the job

Children's Services at Bradford Royal Infirmary needs you to join our dedicated team to enable us to continue offering the children of Bradford excellent care. Our team is growing, and we require dynamic, outgoing Healthcare Assistants to join our renowned team.

The successful applicant will need to have:

• A commitment to caring for sick children and their families.
• Commitment to continuing your own personal professional development.
• NVQ/QCF Diploma or Apprenticeship at Level 3 in Health & Social Care (applicants with a Level 2 in Health & Social Care will be considered but will be offered a Band 3 Trainee post and your starting salary will reflect this)

OR

• NVQ/QCF Diploma or Apprenticeship at Level 3 in a Child Care related course (applicants with a Level 2 in a Child Care related course will be considered but will be offered a Band 3 Trainee post and your starting salary will reflect this)

To find out more please contact.

Laura Deery (Practice & Professional Development Sister) 01274 366925/07586714216