Senior Healthcare Assistant

About Us

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More detail about the role

Senior Healthcare Assistant to assist the Registered Nurses, Healthcare Assistants and Multi-disciplinary Team with rehabilitating the ward patients. Opportunities for further training and to acquire further skills with venepuncture, cannulation and ECG Training.

Are you looking for a new challenge? Doris Heard ward Exmouth Community Hospital may just have the right job role as a Senior Healthcare Assistant within our Intermediate Care team. We are looking for an enthusiastic, kind, caring and hardworking person. You would be part of a Multi-disciplinary team providing Rehabilitation to a mixed age range of patients. Our aim is to maximize patient's safety, independence and quality of life using strength based approach. Our skills include mobility and transfers using some manual handling equipment. We also promote independence with personal care and other activities of daily living. On occasions we need to provide End of Life care and strive to ensure the patient and their family receives excellent care and support from the whole team. Our Team consists of Registered and Unregistered Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Rehabilitation Support Workers.

If you feel you have the right skills to join our Team then we can provide you with additional training needs, clinical supervision and excellent support. For any more information please call the ward or to arrange a visit.

Working Pattern: 07:30-20:00, 07:30-20:00, 12:00-20:00, 19:30-08:00

Interview Date: TBC

For further information please contact Donna Robson Clinical Nurse Manager on 01404 540548 or email donna.robson@nhs.net

Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.

The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.

The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.

Role Summary

• To contribute to the delivery of patients individual care programmes under the direction and supervision of a Registered Nurse/Midwife.
• To practice in accordance with Trust standards and statutory requirements and operate within the boundaries of the role and assessed competencies.

About the Role

We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.

This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we'll help you get there.

Looking after you is important to us.

We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.

If you're starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.

You'll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.

Salary is not the only financial benefit

You'll have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:

• National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
• Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
• Car lease schemes.
• The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
• Cycle to work scheme

These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we'd love to hear from you.

Benefits

Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).

Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.

It’s never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you'll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.