Senior Healthcare Assistant - MIC Hub

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Job summary

Adult Community Services

Job Title: Band 3, Senior Health Care Assistant

Substantive Post, 30 hours per week flexible working hours will be considered. No weekend work is required.

Based in the Milford Integrated Care (MIC) Hub, at Milford Hospital

Are you an experienced Health Care Assistant looking to develop their skills with a friendly community team working within an outpatient department?

As part of the Royal Surrey Foundation Trust, based at Milford Hospital, the MIC Hub offers you the opportunity to work for a unique, dynamic organisation thats transforming adult community services locally.

Working as part of the MIC Hub team you will work closely with nursing colleagues reviewing patients coming in for a variety of appointments including frailty clinics, Parkinsons clinics and IV clinics within the department.

Main duties of the job

• You will be responsible for completing assessments for patients including, but not limited to, observations, ECGs, and blood tests.
• You will manage your own patients arriving, under the supervision of our registered nurses team and we will support developing your skills within the team.
• We are looking for a motivated individual with a passion for improving patient care and patient experience.

The MIC Hub provides holistic assessment for older people with a variety of complex needs with the aim to improve the patients quality of life, promote self-care, reduce risk of deterioration in patients condition and avoid unnecessary hospital admission.

The Hub also supports a variety of other outpatient clinics to improve the health and wellbeing of our community patients and we want you to be an integral member of our team supporting a variety of interesting services.

Full support with transition from different clinical areas will be put in place as part of induction including competencies of clinical skills required.

For an informal discussion/visit contact please contact Amie Harling Senior Sister on aharling@nhs.net or Bethany Hamilton, Sister on b.hamilton1@nhs.net

Previous applicants need not apply.

About us

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is a friendly, supportive, busy but welcoming acute and community Trust that is ambitious about developing our services and your career.

Our compassionate, caring and friendly colleagues make up our Royal Surrey family and are at the heart of what we do. We all have a passion for learning, continuous improvement and excelling together through innovation, research and development. There are over 4,500 members of our Royal Surrey family.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in the community and homes across Guildford and Waverley.

We have received an overall Good rating from the CQC with Medical care (including older peoples care), End of Life Care and Maternity services being deemed Outstanding by the CQC. We are investing in our colleagues through our health and wellbeing programme and a commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years.

There has never been a better time to join us.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To work independently and under the guidance of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to provide person-centred care to patients attending the clinic for completion of Comprehensive Nursing Assessment. Support the MDT in delivery of clinical assessments and onward referrals and follow ups for patients with clinical frailty.

As a Trust employee act with integrity and uphold the values and beliefs of the Trust.

To deliver care in accordance with national and local priorities, Trust Policies, procedures and guidelines.

Following corporate induction, local induction and period of supervised practice you will work independently with patients to provide high quality patient care under the guidance of qualified nurses in an outpatient setting. To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team, supporting nursing staff in promoting health, independence and maximizing the quality of life for patients and carers.

Job description
Job responsibilities

To work independently and under the guidance of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to provide person-centred care to patients attending the clinic for completion of Comprehensive Nursing Assessment. Support the MDT in delivery of clinical assessments and onward referrals and follow ups for patients with clinical frailty.

As a Trust employee act with integrity and uphold the values and beliefs of the Trust.

To deliver care in accordance with national and local priorities, Trust Policies, procedures and guidelines.

Following corporate induction, local induction and period of supervised practice you will work independently with patients to provide high quality patient care under the guidance of qualified nurses in an outpatient setting. To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team, supporting nursing staff in promoting health, independence and maximizing the quality of life for patients and carers.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NVQ Level 3 (care)or equivalent level of knowledge and/or experience.

Experience

Essential

• Previous experience of delivering patient care.
• Interest in working in MDT department and outpatient setting.

Desirable

• Experience of working in community/outpatient setting.

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• NVQ Level 3 (care)or equivalent level of knowledge and/or experience.

Experience

Essential

• Previous experience of delivering patient care.
• Interest in working in MDT department and outpatient setting.

Desirable

• Experience of working in community/outpatient setting.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
Address

Milford Hospital

Tuesley Lane

Godalming

Surrey

GU7 1UF

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