Healthcare Assistant

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a health care assistant to become part of a well-established, fast developing same day emergency care unit. Our Same Day Emergency Care Unit incorporates Medical and Frailty specialities as well as Medical Day Case Unit.

The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills and work well within the team but be able to show initiative and have great time keeping skills.

You will support the nurse with assessing and delivering care to patients across all areas of the unit while you work within your scope of practice.

You will promote patient independence while supporting patients to meet their personal and hygiene needs as well as helping to ensure their dietary needs are met.

You will also assist the ward clerk with admitting and discharging patients. You will play an important role to ensure the unit is kept clean and tidy and assist with stock rotation and re stocking of assessment trolleys.

While working on the unit you will ensure you work within your scope of practice and take a responsibility to ensure the unit is safe.

Main duties of the job

To assess patients using observations and relevent safety tools.

Meet hygiene and dietary needs of patients.

To work along side the nurses and within scope of practice.

General housekeeping on the unit.

Admin work accordingly and when required.

To use the computer systems to input patient care and request relevent items within scope of practice.

We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.