Healthcare Assistant

The Walk in Centres assess and treat patients with minor illness and injuries. They are open 8am to 8/8.30pm 7days per week. The service is nurse led and offers both an appointment or walk-in service.
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.
The postholder will work as part of the multidisciplinary team and will assist and support the clinical team in providing patient care.
Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment
of systems and processes., 1. Work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.
2. Undertake a range of patient interventions within the scope of NVQ level 3 skills for patients as
delegated by team leader or other qualified clinical staff.
3. Offer advice to patients and carers on a wide range of health issues to include health promotion,
lifestyle advice and self-care.
4. Plan and organise own work schedule once delegated from team leader.
5. Undertake basic patient observations.
6. Work within existing clinical guidelines, policies and infection control procedures.
7. Offer advice and support to patients and families in a wide range of situations.
8. Communicate factual and sensitive information within confidentiality guidelines to patients,
ensuring all information is appropriately documented and reported back to the team leader.
9. Demonstrate own role to new starters and students.
10. Ensure safe moving and handling techniques in the delivery of patient care, this can include the
safe use of equipment.
11. Communicate information to multi-disciplinary team and other agencies as appropriate.
12. Undertake ordering and receipt of stores.
13. Undertake further training to gain skills in other areas.
14. Utilise NVQ level 3 skills within identified areas as required by the clinical team.
15. Deliver patient care within essence of care standards and Trust guidelines and policies.
16. Document care delivered within hand-written or electronic patient records., 2. Undertake a range of patient interventions within the scope of NVQ level 3 skills for patients as
delegated by team leader or other qualified clinical staff.
3. Offer advice to patients and carers on a wide range of health issues to include health promotion,
lifestyle advice and self-care.
4. Plan and organise own work schedule once delegated from team leader.
5. Undertake basic patient observations.
6. Work within existing clinical guidelines, policies and infection control procedures.
7. Offer advice and support to patients and families in a wide range of situations.
8. Communicate factual and sensitive information within confidentiality guidelines to patients,
ensuring all information is appropriately documented and reported back to the team leader.
9. Demonstrate own role to new starters and students.
10. Ensure safe moving and handling techniques in the delivery of patient care, this can include the
safe use of equipment.
11. Communicate information to multi-disciplinary team and other agencies as appropriate.
12. Undertake ordering and receipt of stores.
13. Undertake further training to gain skills in other areas.
14. Utilise NVQ level 3 skills within identified areas as required by the clinical team.
15. Deliver patient care within essence of care standards and Trust guidelines and policies.
16. Document care delivered within hand-written or electronic patient records.
17. Participate in own PDR with team leader to establish objectives, reporting arrangement
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We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.