Job Title: Healthcare Assistant
Agency: Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust,Gateshead, NE9 6SX
Location: United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: Not Specified

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Job Description

Certificate of Sponsorship: Healthcare assistant job in Gateshead. Applications requiring current Skilled Worker sponsorship are welcome and will be reviewed alongside other applications.

Healthcare Assistant – Certificate of Sponsorship

Job overview

There is a wonderful opportunity to join the team on Ward 21 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead. This is a 30-bedded Trauma and Orthopaedic ward.

As a Healthcare Assistant, you will work directly with individuals, giving care to enable them to accomplish activities of daily living in Hospital / Home / Care setting with help from a multidisciplinary team of nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists, social workers and doctors.

1. Offers a variety of assigned clinical care tasks in hospital, community and other settings
2. Notes patient observations and changes in clinical state
3. Performs limited clinical care responsibilities

Key tasks of the role

Everyone is different, but the list below highlights some of the practical tasks that the post holder will do, help individuals to do and allow people with:

• Using suitable assessment instruments under supervision to assist the registered practitioner in assessing patients’ health and wellbeing requirements. Start emergency action as necessary e.g. cardiac arrest, fire
• Identify/contribute to their own aims to better their quality of life
• Participate in clinical skills as trained in accordance to role e.g. recording ECG’s
• To be involved in their own care/support/recovery plans.
• Support people to voice their needs and wishes Help with their personal hygiene and physical health.
• Be actively involved in health promotion
• Do something fun and meaningful
• To assist people with outside activities/appointments under indirect supervision
• May be responsible for patient monies/valuables to be dealt with in accordance with GHFT rules
• Help people with activities of daily living, promoting active engagement and independence.

Who we are

Based in the North East of England, we deliver a variety of hospital and community health services from our top facilities including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon Urgent Care Centre, and Bensham Hospital, all located within Gateshead.

We are one of the first foundation trusts in the country, established in 2005, and we have continued to provide the finest standards of treatment to our patients.

We presently employ about 4,800 workers and provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead area.

Our values should be the ‘golden thread’ through all that we do – they are vital to who we are. The five qualities are easily remembered by the abbreviation ICORE: Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women’s Network, to push us and encourage us to continually improve. Our Armed Forces network is a growing network for us.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our ‘Balance’ program balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.

Position description

Responsibilities of the job

• To comply with trust policies and procedures
• Establish and sustain safe and successful therapeutic interactions
• Help people contribute to collaborative care/support/recovery plans
• Assist the named nurse to establish collaborative, individual, patient-centred care plans and to implement them creatively using initiative
• Communicate effectively with a diversity of people, utilising a range of preferred methods
• Assist in monitoring, watching and connecting with people, conveying outcomes and findings with the rest of the team
• Find out about a person’s experience of their mental health, learning disability and/or dementia.
• Understand a person’s coping methods and capabilities and enable people to use these at times of pain or difficulty
• Encourage contemplative practice and foster compassion and understanding
• Be able to identify escalating risk and warn significant others and the team to respond accordingly
• Be able to undertake a variety of practical tasks and duties to support the Team and individual requirements.
• Adhere to principles of de-escalation and, where physical interventions or restraint are required to approach in line with recognised approaches, respecting the safety and dignity of the individual throughout.
• To feel confident in reporting undesirable situations and areas of concern as soon as they arise
• To record any relevant information in an electronic record as required by applicable policy and legislation
• Participate in individual reviews and team meetings

Job Description

Credentials

Critical

English GCSE or comparable qualification.

Maths GCSE or equivalent

Vocational qualification in health and social care (e.g. care certificate; diploma level 2/3

Work Experience

Critical

Ability to work well with a team

Experience working with patients with dementia / alzheimers

Skills of Effective Communication and Listening

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and so a disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (previously the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB)) will be required to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Sponsorship Certificate

Applications by  job seekers requiring current Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcomed and will be reviewed alongside all other applications. Further information can be found on the UK Visas and Immigration website.

How to Apply;

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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