Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated Band 3 Health Care Assistant to work within our Neighbourhood Nursing Service (NNS) also supporting Virtual Ward referrals throughout the Barnsley area. Virtual Wards enable people to be supported in their own home or place of residence, as an alternative to hospital admission or to support earlier discharge from hospital.
Responsibilities
* Deliver nursing care to housebound patients, including wound management, chronic disease management, promotion of self-care and terminal/palliative care.
* Contribute to the care planning process and provide high standards of safe and compassionate care.
* Have the flexibility and skill set to work across planned and crisis pathways, supporting patients to remain well in their own homes, or long-term place of residence, and/or prevent hospital admission.
* Develop and maintain meaningful therapeutic relationships with people and ensure the care experienced is positive and service user safety is maintained.
* Attend to service users' personal care needs, which may involve undertaking physical aspects such as moving and handling of service users.
* Apply knowledge of long-term health conditions to provide advice and support.
* Exercise a degree of independence, under supervision, using initiative and judgment when delivering tasks.
* Participate in training/education and clinical supervision to develop skills and knowledge, and apply continuous reflection on own practice.
Qualifications and Experience
* The successful applicant will have experience of providing care and related procedures to those with health and social needs.
* If you possess excellent communication skills, have the ability to work flexibly and autonomously, this opportunity could be for you.
* You will have the skills to work across both planned nursing and crisis pathways, and be expected to work across a seven-day week shift pattern including weekends and bank holidays.
Work Environment and Trust Information
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative. Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers. We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.
Being a foundation Trust means we are accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we’re run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust. Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.
Additional Information
All employees are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.
Visa sponsorship under the Health and Care Worker visa route can only be considered if the prorated salary meets the minimum threshold of £25,000, as required by the UK Visas and Immigration. For Band 3 roles, only full-time positions at the top of the pay scale meet this threshold. Therefore, sponsorship may not be possible depending on salary increment placement and working hours.
We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. We strongly discourage this and will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.
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