Healthcare Assistant

The role is to support Respiratory Nurses to provide excellent Respiratory management to patients in their own home or clinic setting, in order to prevent unnecessary hospital admission, and to improve patient experience as well as ensuring preferred place of care at end of life.
The post holder is expected to conduct basic venepuncture, observations including blood pressures and weight, report the outcome of assessment or tests to staff, support administration staff/ nurses in contacting patients and delivery/collection of necessary equipment and support patients undertaking pulmonary rehabilitation classes
We welcome applications from Health Care Assistants who have previous health or social care experience in Community Care, excellent communication skills, and are passionate about improving patient outcomes.
As the post is to cover the Sefton borough, the post-holder must be able to travel.
The service is currently Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. There are plans in the future that the service would become a 7 day service working 8am to 8pm daily., + Commit to the vision of supporting Mersey Care in becoming a leading organisation in the provision of community services, mental health care, addiction services and learning disability care, and in doing so fully utilise their skills and experience to support the
objectives of the Trust.
+ Role model the values of the Trust - Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respectfulness, Enthusiasm and Support- in all activities and interactions with employees, service users and other stakeholders
+ Challenge the stigma associated with mental health and learning difficulties.
+ Comply with the Duty of Candour, defined by Francis as: 'The volunteering of all relevant information to persons who have or may have been harmed by the provision of services, whether or not the information has been requested and whether or not a complaint or a
report about that provision has been made.'
+ Work across professional and organisational boundaries to improve services for all.
+ Maintain their specific knowledge base and develop new skills.
+ Value the contribution of the patient / service user voice.
+ Operate within any organisational codes of practice or those from a relevant professional body.
+ Respect equality and diversity across all areas of working practice and communications with staff, service users and other stakeholders.
+ Take responsibility for the accurate and timely collection and recording of data and ensuring all personally identifiable information is protected and used only for the purposes for which it was intended.
+ Comply with all health and safety legislation and local policies and procedures.
+ Adhere to all organisational policies.
+ Have knowledge and understanding of technology in the workplace which is sufficient to maintain their efficiency and also how technology can empower service users in a digital environment
+ Comply with the NHS Constitution in relation to the staff responsibilities that it sets out for NHS employees
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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.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

Working from clinic locations, acute hospital sites and patient's homes across the Sefton borough, the successful post-holder will work as part of the Community Respiratory Team, supporting the team's nurses to assess and treat our patients in a variety of settings.
The post-holder's duties will include but not be limited to venepuncture, patient observations and an ability to lone work in the community. Supporting the Virtual Ward programme in acute hospital sites (Southport and Aintree) and assisting the therapy team in supporting patients in Pulmonary Rehabilitation classes is part of the role. A Care certificate and venepuncture competencies would be advantageous but not essential, as this training as well as News 2 can be provided inhouse.
As a result of the post-holder being effective in their role, The Trust would expect to see the following outcomes for the Trust, service users and the wider community:
1. Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust as a leading provider of community services, mental health care, physical health, addiction services and learning disability care.
2. Service users receiving a high quality service, which is free from stigma, discrimination and harm.
3. Staff engaged with delivery, innovation, continuous improvement of services to benefit service users.
4. The Trust values will be embedded across the division for all staff and evident to service users

Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
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.