Healthcare Assistant-Discharge Lounge

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the highly motivated discharge lounge team in a health care assistant position.

The Discharge Lounge supports all areas within the Trust with an emphasis on maintaining timely and safe patient flow out of the Hospital.

The successful candidate will have experience of hospital care and a knowledge of patient discharge processes.

The role requires the individual to have enthusiasm and a passion to drive the service forward and meet service demands. They should have effective communication skills and an ability to support all the staff within the team to deliver high quality safe patient care.

Working Pattern: 37.5 hours per week during the hours of 07.30 - 20.00 Monday to Friday and 10.00 - 16.00 weekends., To provide effective and clinical support to Registered Nursing Staff within the Medical Services Group during the shift around a 24 hour period

Support the systems for a multi-disciplinary approach to patient-centred care delivery, which builds on the philosophy of greater involvement of patients and their relatives/carers by using the Trusts patient and public involvement strategy

Delivers patient care including health promotion daily to patients who present with undifferentiated conditions including life-threatening emergencies to adults and will present unscheduled and unannounced at any time throughout the 24-hour period

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, fantastic pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will to experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan -- there is truly something for everyone!