Healthcare Assistant - Recruitment Event

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.

Employer details

Employer name

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Royal Blackburn Hospital

Blackburn

BB2 3HH

Employer's website

http://jobs.elht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Royal Blackburn Hospital

Blackburn

BB2 3HH

Employer's website

http://jobs.elht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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