Healthcare Assistant | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Company: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a band 3 health care assistant. We are looking for individuals who are eager to learn, have a kind and caring attitude towards patients, families and colleagues and who will be positive team members.

This Trust is an exciting and rewarding place to work and successful applicants will be offered full support in settling into your new role. We offer a full and comprehensive training and induction period and you will assigned to a mentor who will guide and support you through your learning and development.

Please note that only candidates who provide a fully completed application form, that demonstrates how they meet the person specification for the post, will be shortlisted.

If you are caring individual and your values align to ours (Caring, Fair and Innovative) please consider applying

You must have previous experience working in Healthcare/Social Care to apply for this post.

* Please note, this vacancy may close once sufficient applications have been submitted*

Under the supervision of a registered nurse, the post holder will assist the department team in providing the highest possible standard of care for patients and their families/carer. The post holder will undertake a range of tasks and duties as delegated by a registered nurse

The successful candidates needs to be driven and motivated to fit in to the team well to strive to provide the highest standards of care for our patients .

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.





We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women’s Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

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Job Summary

Under the supervision of a registered nurse assisting the team in providing the highest possible standard of care for patients and their families/carer.

The post holder will undertake a range of tasks and duties as delegated by a registered nurse.

CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

- Participates in all aspects of patient care with particular attention to personal hygiene and grooming.
- Provision of patients toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
- Support of patients in managing incontinence and promotion of continence.
- The recording of a patient’s fluid intake and output using fluid balance charts.
- Preparation and serving of patient’s meals, drinks and snacks. Assisting / feeding patients as necessary.
- The recording of patient’s dietary intake when indicated in the patient’s plan of care.
- Enable patients to maintain/improve their mobility by use of exercise and mobility appliances.
- Assist in the prevention of pressure sore development as directed by the Registered nurse in conjunction with the patient’s plan of care
- Carry out any movement and handling within the safe practice guidelines from your mandatory training and in relation to the patient’s manual handling plan.
- Obtaining specimens from patients for ward or laboratory testing.
- Removal of cannula, catheters.
- Undertake the dressing of non-complex wounds (in accordance with identified competencies and in conjunction with the plan of care)
- Naso-gastric/PEG feeding once the tube has been passed and checked by a registered qualified
- Prepare

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