We're looking for a Health Care Assistant on a fixed term basis caring for Orthopaedic and Surgical patients both pre and post operatively.
Your main responsibilities will be:
Providing day to day care to our patients.
Ensuring their safety at all times.
You will be responsible for delivering the care and documenting your actions.
Interview date: TBC
You will work as part of the multidisciplinary team delivering care to the patients
Your duties will be maintaining standards on the ward.
Delivering a high quality of care by assisting with hygiene, nutrition and hydrations as well as providing physiological support to the patients and carers.
The ward cares for elderly and patients many who are living with dementia, this can be challenging at times but very rewarding.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our Services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.
Undertake personal care duties for patients within the care setting accessing supervision from registered healthcare practitioner. Personal care refers to delivery of personal hygiene and assisting with feeding, not requiring clinical skills.
Record patient’s personal care information in accordance with local and trust policies.
Work with all members of the multi-disciplinary team to deliver the Trust’s vision and values providing safe, high quality compassionate, person-centred care.
Demonstrate ward routine to new employees in own work area, where required.
