Healthcare Assistant

at  Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Take the next step in your healthcare career in an award-winning NHS Trust with a reputation for high quality delivery & service.
Full NHS terms and conditions and enhanced benefits package
Develop your skills in a friendly and welcoming environment with opportunities for progression
Our enthusiastic, motivated, and experienced healthcare support workers, work under the supervision of a healthcare professionals to support them and help patients on their journey back to full health.
Working as part of an established clinical team the successful candidate will be offered the opportunity to work within a small team of skilled and caring professionals within older people’s functional mental health services. We are a 5 bedded unit for ladies over the age of 65 who receive acute psychiatric interventions to work towards moving forwards within recovery and back to the community.
The Health Care Support worker play a vital role in delivering high standards of care to patients at the Trust. Working in a busy clinical environment, you will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure all patients are cared for and treated with dignity and respect and receive the highest quality of care. Duties will be varied and will include:
Demonstrate what it means in practice to promote and provide person centred care treatment
Support by obtaining valid consent, and carrying out risk assessments
Work in partnership with the individual, their carer, families and the wider healthcare team
Promote clinical effectiveness, safety and a good experience for the individual
Making patients comfortable
Talking and listening to patients
Involved in patient activities and support them to use ward facilitates
You will also gain experience in gaining a number of key clinical skills throughout the programme.
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
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