Healthcare Assistant - Recruitment Event

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

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Job summary

Are you caring compassionate and friendly?

Are you looking for a career where your day is never the same twice, where you're cared about, and where there's opportunity for progression?

East Lancashire Hospitals Trust are looking for individuals who share our values, and want to give safe, personal, and effective care to local citizens.

We'd love to hear from you by applying online. Tell us about your experience of caring for others whether professionally, or family members. Have a look at the person specification and tell us how you meet the skills and have the experience we're looking for.

Successful applications will be invited to one of our recruitment events that will be held on Saturday 14th October and Saturday 21st October. These events are full day events where we'll get to know you, your values and where you might work best through a series of assessment based tasks and forums. We're aiming for the day to be fun and give you a chance to get to know what it's like to be part of the ELHT family and give you a chance to meet some current staff and volunteers to help you understand what your role is all about.

Care experience is not essential as we are happy to provide training to candidates with the right qualities.

Our staff are passionate and enthusiastic and pride themselves on the care we give to our patients and on strong teamwork ethos - we can't wait for you to join our team!

Main duties of the job

Our healthcare assistants play a vital role in meeting the physical, social, and emotional needs of patients. You'll work on wards and department with other clinical and non-clinical staff and be responsible for some clinical duties like taking patient observations, helping with nutrition, and being a friendly face offering warmth and reassurance to patients. You can read full details on job description.

We provide training and a full induction to help you be ready for the important role in looking after patients and offer ongoing training to keep your skills up to date and help you progress in your career.

About us

ELHT is one of the busiest hospitals trusts in the North West. One of the first things you'll notice is a workforce of talented caring and supportive teams ready to welcome you to be part of our family.

As a health care assistant at ELHT you will have access to fantastic benefits including:

Starting basic salary of £22,383 for full time workers, with enhanced pay for some shifts
Flexible working opportunities
Focus on career progression and pathways to becoming registered clinicians such as nursing, midwifery, or physiotherapy apprenticeships.
Great annual leave package of 28 days per year plus bank holidays increasing to 33 days with long service!
Access to a host of wellbeing services and activities including an on-site gym, fast physio, and mental health support.
NHS discounts at a range of shops and services.
Early access to wages to get instant help when you need it.

Established in 2003 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) is a large integrated health care organisation providing high quality acute secondary healthcare for the people of East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen.

Our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal, and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 700,000 patients a year from the most serious of emergencies to planned operations and procedures. We employ over 8,000 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work and achievements.

Date posted

03 Hydref 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£22,383 to £24,336 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

435-MEC-271-23

Job locations

Royal Blackburn Hospital

Blackburn

BB2 3HH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information can be found in the Job Profile. Please take a look at the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full description of the roles and responsibilities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information can be found in the Job Profile. Please take a look at the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full description of the roles and responsibilities.

Person Specification

Attainments

Essential

Basic numeracy & literacy skills.
Ability to comply with detailed procedures.
Basic computer skills in order to access Trust policies.
Able to maintain confidentiality

Desirable

ECG
Venepuncture
Cannulation
Taking Observations

Aptitudes

Essential

Good standard of written/verbal communication
Accuracy when making records.
Willing to adapt to the changing needs of the service.
Friendly, open, and approachable manner
Able to work in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to deal with conflicting priorities.
Team Worker
Willingness to undertake training as required.

Person Specification

Attainments

Essential

Basic numeracy & literacy skills.
Ability to comply with detailed procedures.
Basic computer skills in order to access Trust policies.
Able to maintain confidentiality

Desirable

ECG
Venepuncture
Cannulation
Taking Observations

Aptitudes

Essential

Good standard of written/verbal communication
Accuracy when making records.
Willing to adapt to the changing needs of the service.
Friendly, open, and approachable manner
Able to work in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to deal with conflicting priorities.
Team Worker
Willingness to undertake training as required.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information