Health Care Assistant Part-time inOrmskirk inOrmskirk PUBLISHED TUE 7 JAN 2025

Working closely with ourCommunity Nursing Teams, as a Healthcare Assistant you will support and assist the senior team members toprovide care to people in their own homesfor a widerange ofconditions including diabetes, wound and end of life care.Our work is crucial to the community as we aim to prevent unnecessary hospital admission.

As part of our community nursing team we empower our staff to work autonomously and with flexibility by providing them with state of the artnew tabletsfor them to be able to check in from home, write their notes up on the go and allow them to not be trapped in an office base, so they can really enjoy working in their chosen community background!

This is a part-time role working 17.30 hours per week. You will work 5 hours per shift.

The shift patterns are:

• Early Shift 6.00pm 11pm
• Late Shift 6.30pm 11.30pm

Within this role, you will:

• Assist in providing nursing care as delegated by the Team Leaderwithin patients homes.
• Maintain knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to deliver a quality service that is responsive to the changing needs of patients.
• Provide clerical and administrative support to the team as delegated by the Senior Sister/Team Sister
• Deliver care in accordance with organisation policies, procedures and guidelines, according to competencies
• Report any changes in condition of the patient to the Team Leaderor in their absence the designated nurse in charge of the caseload.

About us

This is an opportunity to put your NVQ level 2/3 or equivalent/appropriate qualification/experience to great use. With strongcommunication and organisation skills, and a flexible approach will ensureyou deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of theirhealthcare journey.

In this role, it is essential you have adriving license,allowing you to travel to service users' homes within the area of West Lancashire.

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

As a Healthcare Assistant, youll be part of our valued team in the Community Nursing Team based in Burscough.

You will feel valued as a Healthcare Assistantwithin HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £22,3£23,500 annual salary with group pension
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission