Senior Healthcare Assistant / Support Worker - Urgent care response Team

The Senior HCA /Healthcare Support Worker will carry out a range of patient care tasks and duties to enable the team to provide an effective and efficient service within the community setting. To achieve this, the post holder/s will:
+ Competently perform the necessary aspects of care for patients
+ Ensure effective delivery of clinical care is provided to patients and that an acceptable standard is maintained.
+ Follow Trust policies and provide a safe and person-centred environment for the treatment of patients.
+ Participate in personal and practice development activities to maintain standards of care.
Please see the attached candidate information pack for detailed duties and responsibilities of the role.

Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream, + Demonstrates care and compassion to patients, carers and relatives to help ensure high quality person-centred patient care is delivered at all times.
+ To carry out a range of assigned patient care tasks as directed by a Registered Professional to ensure delivery of a high quality of patient care.
+ To report observed changes in the patients' physical/psychological needs to the Registered Professional.
+ Performs a range of tests and report results to Registered Professional, e.g. urinalysis, blood pressure, patient observations, take blood samples and similar activities.
+ Performs a range of patient care tasks e.g. wound observation and dressings, removal of peripheral cannula, stoma bag changing and reports any issues to the Registered Professional.
+ To deal with questions and enquiries from patients, carers and relatives e.g. on the clients' condition or for any suggestions or complaints that they wish to raise. Where appropriate, refer these to a Registered Professional.
+ Assists with the safe transfer of all patients.
+ Communicates/liaises with members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure high standards of patient care.
+ Demonstrates care and compassion to patients, carers and relatives to help ensure high-quality person-centred patient care is delivered at all times.
+ Assist patients with activities of daily living. This will typically include all basic care including the feeding, bathing and repositioning of the patient under the supervision of a trained Professional.
+ Provide support to the registered professional and, where appropriate, other members of the Clinical Team as required.
+ To co-operate with and maintain good relationships with team colleagues and staff in other disciplines that are attending and treating clients to maximise patient care.
+ Maintain good relationships and an empathic approach to the patient's' family, relatives and carers and refer them to a trained professional for any questions they may have on the client's condition or for any suggestions or complaints that they wish to raise.
+ Report observed changes in the patient's physical and psychological needs.
Please see the attached candidate information pack for detailed duties and responsibilities of the role.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2x enthusiastic and highly motivated Senior Health care assistants (HCA)/Support workers (HCSW)to join our Urgent care response (UCR) team on 6 months fixed term or secondment contracts.UCR is part of the NHS Long Term Plan and Ageing Well Programme to support England's ageing population and those with complex needs.
The Senior HCA /HCSW will be part of the multidisciplinary team delivering care to patients. Support and supervision will be provided by a Registered Professional.
We are looking for people who are compassionate, highly motivated, enthusiastic and possess excellent communication and team working abilities to work within our diverse multicultural community.
With the renewed emphasis on community-based care, this is a great time to join our team and continue your journey.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.