Community Healthcare Assistant inNorth Yorkshire inNorth Yorkshire PUBLISHED 21 AUG 2024

Job Overview


An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Healthcare Assistant to join the Community Nursing Service in Scarborough.

Our Community Nursing Service works across Scarborough & Filey providing personalised, quality care to patients in their own homes including care homes.

This is a 7 day service with a shift pattern which will include late and night shifts.

We invest in our workforce by offering opportunities to our team members to progress their careers through further training and qualifications.


Main duties of the job


Day to day the role includes visiting patients to provide the care required according to the care plan written by a registered nurse, participating in handovers and/or safety huddles, and documenting the care provided. Clinical skills developed and used within the role include:

• Vital observations
• Recognise and escalate issues of concern and/or safety including the deteriorating patient and issues of safeguarding
• Phlebotomy
• Injections
• Wound care
• Bladder (including catheters) & bowel care
• End of life care
• Moving & Handling of patients
• Equipment provision & instruction in use
  
  

Working for our organisation


We are an award winning and CQC rated good, health and social care Trust that delivers care to communities in Hull, East Yorkshire, Scarborough and Ryedale and Whitby. We deliver safe, effective and integrated health services that improve the physical, mental and social health and wellbeing of our patients and service users.

To find out more about our wide range of services including mental health, learning disabilities, children and young people service, Forensic, Community and Primary Care visit our website humber.nhs.uk/Services

You will join our team of over 3600 colleagues that work together across our wide geography and specialties to change lives every day. We’re extremely proud of our Trust community and we know you can expect to receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need from your new team to get you started.

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development to ensure the delivery of high quality, person-centred and compassionate care to patients. We value our staff and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills and competencies to deliver outstanding care.


Person specification



Qualifications



Essential criteria

• Level 3 healthcare qualification
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of multi-disciplinary working
  
  

Knowledge & Experience



Essential criteria

• Knowledge of specific role, service & team demonstrated on application
• Experience of caring for someone with a long term condition or at end of life
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working within a Community Nursing setting
• Experience of using SystmOne
  
  

Skills And Competencies



Essential criteria

• Able to effectively travel to multiple patient homes and care homes throughout the course of a day including transport of clinical stock required to carry out the treatment
• Sufficient IT skills to learn the systems required for clinical recording, incident reporting and equipment / stock ordering
• Confidence to work out in the community unaccompanied
• Able to work flexible hours to meet service needs including night shifts
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Clinical skills e.g. phlebotomy, bladder & bowel care, wound care, diabetes care, taking vital observations
  
  

Applicant Requirements


This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.