Community Healthcare Assistant
Job Description
Job summary
- Are you a Healthcare Assistant wanting to gain the skills, knowledge, and competencies relevant to the community?
- Do you want to develop your career within a clinically led organisation, at the forefront of the revolution of adult community nursing?
- Are you passionate for high quality patient care and experience?
This unique position offers you the opportunity to work as part of a highly skilled community workforce who are the cornerstone of safe patient care. You will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team to visit patients in their own homes and care homes to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. We have lots of training and development pathways at every level through from band 3 to band 8. We provide a preceptorship program to support you in your role and ongoing training and development.
We use electronic clinical records through EMIS and a work IPad and IPhone will be provided.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a highly motivated and ambitious healthcare assistant to join the wider Community Nursing Team which includes Community Matrons, District Nurses, Registered Nurses, Nursing Associates and Healthcare Assistants.
You will work without direct supervision under the direction of a Registered Nurse. This post holder will need to ensure that all relevant policy, protocols, guidelines, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) are followed.
The post holder will need to have health care assistant skills in basic wound care, venepuncture, catheter care etc and have a level 2 NVQ or equivalent.
Post holders will be available to work Monday to Sunday between 8am and 8pm.A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use if required for this post, however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
Procare Community Services are not a UKVI sponsoring organisation, so all candidates are required to have their own independent right to work
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification to understand more about the opportunity this role presents you.
About us
The Procare Chief Operating Officer is a Nurse by background, who has a real passion for all aspects of Community working. Our board is clinically led with a Director of Nursing and GPs who have vast community experience, ensuring that Procare has the expertise and knowledge base needed to develop sustainable integrated services.
With a strong emphasis on high-quality care, patient safety, and a positive patient and carer experience as the core of our strategy, our goal is to ensure excellent care for our local community. We aim to achieve this by creating a supportive and highly skilled workforce, making Procare a great place to work.
We are an innovative, ambitious, friendly, and supportive local team. We take pride in our clinically led and flat management structure, which ensures transparent leadership from all directors. We are in search of an individual with the requisite skills and attributes, someone who is pragmatic and solution-focused, and who desires to be a part of our local Community Nursing Services.
Job responsibilities
You will deliver care in accordance with national and local priorities, policies, procedures, and guidelines and as delegated by the Registered Nurses within the District Nurse Team.You will be required to work without direct supervision to perform a range of health care assistant activities in the community setting for patients at home where the health and wellbeing of the individual would be compromised by travel. Health Care activities will include venepuncture, wound dressings, blood glucose monitoring, insulin Administration, continence reassessments, ordering and managing stock items.
Person Specification
Education / Training / Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of a good level of education
- NVQ Level 2, Care certificate or equivalent or willingness to undertake
- NVQ Level 3, or equivalent
Desirable
- Certificate of competence in adult venepuncture
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of community health care practice to include venepuncture, monitoring blood glucose, stoma and catheter care, and wounds
- Wide range of health care assistant experience
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Procare Community Services
Address
The Medical Practice
High Street
Cranleigh
GU6 8AE
