Band 3 Health Care Assistant - hawthorns

Job summary

This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

The Hawthorns team are looking to recruit a health care assistant for 37.5 hours per week.

The team is fast paced community service responding to planned calls.

The service is part of the wider admission avoidance offer and the post holder will be expected to be dynamic in there approach. The health care assistants within the service visitindividuals in their own homes, clinics or GP surgeries under the direction of a registered professional. They work in partnership with patients, carers and other health and social care agencies to promote independence and are expected to work multi professionally, support other team members' roles and contribute to the future development of the service.

The post holder will be expected to work shifts as required across the 7 day period to maintain service provision. Many staff within the service may have a second job or the evening service may be there only role we welcome all appropriate applicants . As a trust we are flexible and equally are looking for a flexible, caring professional to work across the city wide service.

Main duties of the job

The Trust is a supportive working environment with commitment to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly. Therefore, the hours and days will be negotiated for the successful candidate.

To be shortlisted applicants will need to detail in their supporting information how they can demonstrate the essential requirements of the experience and skills section of the person specification. In order to be shortlisted please ensure the supporting information provides evidence of how you fulfil the essential requirements of the person specification with a particular emphasis on experience and skills.

Would you like to work for a dynamic & friendly Community District Nurse

team who deliver a high quality service.

This vacancy is for an enthusiastic Healthcare Support Worker to join the multidisciplinary Community District Nurse team working within the Evening Service Team covering hours between 6pm and 10:30pm. As part of our committed and supportive team you will assist us in working together to improve the lives of adult patients with a range conditions. The team are based in a centralized hub at Priestly Wharf and work across two teams covering Birmingham. There may be an expectation for staff to work across both teams.

About us

Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.