Advanced Healthcare Assistant - Emergency Care Centre - Scunthorpe

Our Advanced Healthcare Assistant (AHCA) roles are focused on ensuring that high quality patient centered care is delivered in a safe clinical environment. We are committed to developing our staff through training and education, supporting you to learn new skills. We have a dedicated Clinical Educator and Practice Development team focused on ensuring our staff have the right skills to care for our patients, where clinical skills can be taught and practiced to support you in your new role. There will be opportunities to develop and gain transferable skills for your future career - which for some may include a pathway into registered nursing.

• To maintain the highest possible standards of compassionate and professional patient centered care with particular attention to privacy and dignity.
• Assist patients with personal care, hygiene and sanitary needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained at all times.
• Assist in meeting patients' nutritional needs, including non-oral nutritional and fluid intake.
• Where identified in the plan of care, ensure that food and fluid intake and output are accurately documented on appropriate patient charts.
• Assist in skin and pressure area care to prevent pressure ulcers developing. Under the supervision of registered nurses, ensure patients are helped to move position to prevent discomfort and / or pressure ulcers developing.
• Assist patients with safe mobilisation according to their plan of care and where appropriate seek help from other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Utilise appropriate moving and handling equipment to reduce the risk of injury to the patient and themselves.
• Assist registered nursing staff in the taking and recording of vital signs as per the patient's plan of care.
• Communicate any changes in the patient's condition to the nurse / midwife in charge.
• Undertake a range of clinical procedures (Aseptic Dressings, cannulation, venepuncture, wound closure, catherterisation and Plastering)
• Escorting patients for Diagnostics
• Support new starters in developing their clinical skills
  
  We're a large organisation with three hospitals located in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Goole. We also provide community services in North Lincolnshire. Our 6,500 members of staff care for and support a population of more than 400,000 people.
We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt 'best practice' so we can deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values; kindness, courage and respect. We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide. Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees. We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen. Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues. We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.