Healthcare Assistant

Part time - 20 hours per week- worked over 3-4 days dependant on service demand. An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Health Care Assistant to join our Hospice at Home team. The team provide care and support to patients with palliative care needs, and their families, alongside existing primary care services across South Sefton in the patient's own home. Essentials for the role are: that applicants have a completed relevant NVQ Level 3 and it is supported by evidence of clinical experience. Have work experience in community or palliative care setting a valid full UK driver's licence and access to their own car for business purposes. The successful applicant will be supported to complete the Care Certificate as part of their induction. This post involves shift work over 7 days, and rotation between nights and days will be required. If you do not meet the above requirements, please do not apply and please do not reapply if you have previously applied.

• Please note this vacancy will close once sufficient applications have been received, The post holder will work as part of the multidisciplinary team and will assist and support the community clinical team(s). This will include working within the patient's home environment to provide care and support to patients with palliative care needs, and their families.
The Hospice at Home service supports the family and patient to enable the patient to remain at home in their preferred place of care towards the end of their life. It is supplementary to any CHC package of care, and provides HCA care shifts or sits, for extended periods of time providing 1:1 care for palliative patients, supporting the family to have a break from their carer role during these periods. The post holder would be expected to undertake a range of patient interventions within the scope of NVQ level 3 skills as determined by the needs of the individual patient. The successful applicant will be required to work unsupervised as a lone worker in the patient's own home caring for patients with a range of palliative care needs, in the last months, days and hours of their lives. Excellent communication skills are essential for this role, both with patients and families, the wider specialist palliative care MDT, and when collaborating with primary care teams caring for the patient. The post holder may at times be required to provide support and cover as a Band 3 HCA for the specialist palliative care inpatient unit based at Woodlands Hospice.


• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent, Previous health and social care experience or equivalent, Understanding of the principles of Data Protection Act
• Health and Safety
• Equality and Diversity, Able to work without direct supervision.
• Able to plan own workload
• Ability to undertake clinical interventions commensurate with NVQ level 3 skills
• Able to work as a team member
• Excellent developed oral and written communication skills
• Able to keep accurate written and electronic contemporaneous records
• Able to work in a confidential and sensitive manner
• Able to travel for work purposes
• Basic computer skills/ECDL or equivalent
  
  Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience. The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond. To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf Follow us on Social Media: Facebook - Liverpool University Hospitals Careers Instagram - @LUHFTcareers Twitter - @LUHFTcareers

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