Healthcare Assistant

Come and join our CQC rated 'Outstanding' Trust as a Community Healthcare Assistant in Bracknell. As a Community Healthcare Assistant, you'll help deliver care to people in their own homes and get to work with inspiring, skilled teams whilst you do it. We offer a supportive environment with including completion of the Care Certificate, a recognised qualification, and the stepping forward programme, an enhanced training programme for Healthcare Assistants. Our team provides multiple pathways to nursing including pathways for internationally qualified nurses.,

• You will visit a number of patients on a daily basis in their own homes.
• You will provide high quality nursing care to a range of patients with varying healthcare needs.
• Implement, monitor, and maintain high standards of care delivery at all times.
• Communicate effectively within your team, the patients and their carers, and the wider MDT.
• Deliver high service standards, sharing best practice, and actively improving the way we work.
• Maintains accurate and timely patient records in line with organisational requirements.
• Undertake specific clinical tasks, when trained, which include:
• Completing a set of observations including, blood pressure, temperature, oxygen saturation, respiratory rate and heart rate
• Completing wound care, using a wide range of dressings including bandaging, compression hosiery and topical cream application
• Pressure area care as appropriate, which includes ordering equipment.
  
  Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
  
  Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites