About the Role
As a Health Care Assistant, you will assist in the provision of comprehensive, high-quality and efficient Substance Use Services. The post holder will support staff in delivering both pharmacological and psychosocial interventions, including assessment, implementation, care planning and evaluation of patient care.
Responsibilities
* Support and undertake substance misuse interventions and clinical procedures where trained; e.g. triage assessments and screenings, urine analysis, healthy living assessments, physical observations, blood‑borne virus screening, ECG recording, and venepuncture where necessary, supported with appropriate training.
* Ensure appropriate entries are made on patients’ computerised medical records.
* Undertake requested administrative tasks such as clinical audit data collection, clinical intervention appointment scheduling and proactive treatment engagement contact attempts.
* Support stock usage and stock control management.
* Monitor fridge temperatures and fridge logs, taking action when appropriate.
* Record in Controlled Drugs (CDs) registers and take appropriate action when required.
* Maintain equipment and dispensing areas, ensuring they are kept clean and orderly.
* Support the provision of opiate and alcohol detoxifications, undertaking physical detox observations including BP and reporting any concerns to the health and wellbeing nurse, nurse prescriber/medic.
* Support and assist the delivery of nurse health and wellbeing and prescribing clinics.
* Support and assist the delivery of needle exchange and harm‑reduction services.
* Participate in the safe and secure storage of medicines in accordance with all medicines legislation, Turning Point SOPs and Turning Point policies.
* Report critical incidents using DATIX.
* Participate in late, weekend and statutory holiday rotas and extended hours as required.
The role will provide you with scope and support to enhance both your personal and professional development while working as part of a friendly and multidisciplinary team. We welcome applications from anyone with previous experience as a Healthcare Assistant who is passionate about improving health and wellbeing and wishes to develop their skills, knowledge and experience within substance use. A tailored induction and training package, dependent on your experience, will be offered.
Qualifications
* Must hold NVQ Level 3 or equivalent.
* Excellent interpersonal skills at all levels to engage, build relationships and influence colleagues and service users.
* Demonstrable evidence of having worked effectively within a multi‑professional team in a healthcare setting.
* Plain English skills – both verbal and written, to bring clarity and purpose.
* Ability to tailor messages to the audience and convey clinical assessment information to wider staff.
* Ability to deliver against agreed objectives and targets.
* Ability to communicate effectively with community and prison colleagues using a variety of mediums.
* Displays commitment to improving the quality of service for Service Users.
* Working knowledge of confidentiality.
* Understanding of local and national safeguarding procedures.
* Demonstrates knowledge of legislation and guidance relating to medicine usage.
* Recognises barriers to understanding, particularly within patient groups.
* Ability to utilise medical equipment to gather physical observations and convey these with some understanding to clinical staff (e.g. blood pressures).
* Must hold a full driving licence and be able to travel and work across multiple locations as required.
About the Organisation
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership, a vibrant new partnership delivering substance use treatment and recovery services across Lincolnshire from April 2024. The Partnership is delivered between Turning Point, Framework and Double Impact. It combines Turning Point’s national experience as an outstanding substance use provider with Double Impact’s specialism in lived experience and recovery and Framework’s expertise supporting service users with complex issues.
Our “Recovery First” model underpins everything at Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership, with lived‑experience recovery fully integrated and visible throughout. Lincolnshire’s residents will benefit from a highly integrated and highly localised approach, supporting a wide range of issues across all parts of Lincolnshire. As a Health Care Assistant, you will make a real difference to people’s lives by supporting the development of personal, flexible and realistic support and care packages needed to help turn things around.
Benefits
We know reward looks different to each person, so whether it’s ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career, we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package that includes:
* 25 days’ paid holiday a year + Bank Holidays, increasing with each year of service up to 27 days + Bank Holidays. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.
* Join our team and discover the comprehensive benefits we offer by following this link to explore all the exciting perks available to our employees Turning Point Benefits.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.
Salary
Starting salary £25,870 with annual pay progression up to £30,265.
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