Senior Healthcare Assistant

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

About

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated care organisation, providing care in the community at over 20 health centres and clinics as well as services such as district nursing. We also provide services at the Royal Bolton Hospital.

We have three fundamental aims:

1. Best care for better health (for our patients and our community).
2. Responsible use of resources (for the taxpayer).
3. Valued, respected and proud (by our staff, patients and public).

We aim to:

1. Meet the health needs of our population.
2. Improve the safety and quality of care.
3. Improve patient experience.
4. Make our services more efficient.

Key details

Location

Site: Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Minerva Road
Town: Bolton
Postcode: BL4 0JR
Major / Minor Region: Lancashire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Secondment: 12 months
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (This is mainly unsocial hours)

Salary

Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 pa
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 3)

Specialty

Main area: Acute Medicine

Job overview

The purpose of the Health Care Assistant (Band 3) is to assist in the delivery of care within an agreed level of autonomy, following a programme of development through required competencies. Band 3 Health Care Assistants will be required to assist in an enhanced role to include initial patient assessment and providing basic clinical advice under the supervision of Hospital at Night Practitioners/Medical team.

We kindly request previous applicants do not apply at this time.

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To undertake relevant training in order to independently provide specialist treatment to patients including:

1. Physiological observations
2. Venepuncture/cannulation
3. Venous blood gas sampling
4. Blood cultures
5. Electrocardiography

To update clinical documentation and electronic patient information including incident reporting in line with data protection standards.

To communicate patient condition to registered nurse.

To communicate learning from link roles to entire nursing/medical team.

To complete mandatory/essential training as needed.

Working for our organisation

Hospital at Night is one of the many ways the NHS is working to provide the right care in the right place at the right time for patients. Working within the Hospital at Night team will give you an opportunity to be involved in leading and taking part in the running of an out of hours service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To undertake relevant training in order to independently provide specialist treatment to patients including:

1. Physiological observations
2. Venepuncture/cannulation
3. Venous blood gas sampling
4. Blood cultures
5. Electrocardiography

To communicate plans to patients and relatives about their care in oral, written or electronic forms.

To update clinical documentation and electronic patient information including incident reporting in line with data protection standards.

To communicate patient condition to registered nurse.

To communicate learning from link roles to entire nursing/medical team.

To complete mandatory/essential training as needed.

The vision of this Trust is to be recognised by the people of Bolton and beyond as an excellent provider of health and care services and a great place to work. We are striving to attract, recruit and retain high calibre skilled staff which reflect our communities. We are an inclusive employer who trains and develops our staff in a positive learning environment.

We thrive on cultivating cultural architecture; if you have the right skills, attitudes and behaviours, in line with our Trust values, we welcome and appreciate the diversity you bring to our organisation.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits. Please click on the link below to see what current benefits we have.

Staff benefits - Bolton NHS FT (boltonft.nhs.uk)

From time to time we may need to close a vacancy early when in receipt of a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this post and wish to be considered, we strongly advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.

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.

Person specification

Skills

Essential criteria

• Clinical skills

Desirable criteria

• Experience

Experience

Essential criteria

• Maths/English GCSE C or above
• Care Certificate

Desirable criteria

• IT qualification

Documents

• Band 3 (, 248.4)PDFKB
• Band 3 (, 32.7)PDFKB
• Trust Profile (, 334.1)PDFKB
• What Makes Bolton Brilliant (, 924.2)JPGKB
• Applicants with a Disability (, 207.9)PDFKB
• Open letter (, 235.7)PDFKB

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Laura Chrimes
Job title: ACP Lead/ Hospital at Night Professional Lead
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 01204390390