Health Care Assistant- Evening and Nights

We are seeking a new Band 2 Healthcare assistant to support our Evening and Night service in South Nottinghamshire. Are you able to support our nursing staff deliver care to our patients during out of hours, then look no further.

Care closer to home is becoming integral to the future of the NHS and the Community Health Services (CHS) Division of NottsHC are at the forefront of this exciting journey. Working with our system partners in creating collaborative ways to improve physical health care services, activities and interventions in local communities, which meet the needs of our patients in the places they call home.

Being part of an organisation as diverse as NottsHC provides you with great career development opportunities, to be innovative and gives you permission to grow both professionally and personally and really make a difference.

Our integrated team of Nursing and Allied Health Professionals deliver care to people who present with significant physical health care needs in the patient’s normal place of residence, enabling them to be independent, self-caring and live their optimum lives, reducing hospital admissions.

We are looking for kind, compassionate, resilient and flexible individuals to work with our high achieving team to deliver care to patients across the South Notts area. This service covers all of Rushcliffe, Nottingham West and Nottingham North and East and staff are expected to work flexibly across all areas as needed.

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?

Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people – our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

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**Applications will be considered from those with no healthcare experience or Health and Social Care NVQ qualification but can demonstrate the values and attributes that align with that of the Trust**

We are always looking for great Health Care Assistants to join our Evening and Night Community Team who are on the road delivering care into people’s homes during out of hours 8pm to 8am. The Service covers 7 days a week including Bank Holidays.

Travel mileage costs are repaid for all mileage on Trust business and is paid at above the government standard rate.

Personal and work commitments is sometimes difficult to manage, and we will support people to achieve the right work – life balance through flexible working in a variety of full and part time roles which aim to maintain the health and wellbeing of our workforce.

The role requires night-to-night delivery of patient care for patients registered with our Integrated Community Teams led by District Nurses, …. together you all make a difference.

You will work within the South Nottinghamshire Evening and Night Team, under the direction of a registered professional, with patients who require support to carry out activities of daily living in order to maintain them within their own home environment.

This could be the job for you, and we would love to hear from you if you can

• Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be adaptable, reliable, resourceful and approachable, evidencing high levels of personal and clinical credibility, being able to instantly establish effective working relationships in a range of work settings.
• Support our patients within a community setting that enables them to live their optimum life, being self-caring and independent with their health needs to avoid and reduce hospital admissions.
• Demonstrate high levels of care and compassion to assess and deliver care to patients who present with significant physical health care needs within the places they call home.
• Enjoy working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary framework, analyse and develop treatment plans whilst providing compassionate, realistic and timely support to a diverse patient group and their families

Why choose us?

You will have access to internal and external training and quality improvement opportunities and not to mention the wide range of employee benefits NottsHC offer;

• Annual leave of 27 days plus bank holidays (this will increase up to 33 days depending on NHS service and in accordance with A4C terms and conditions)
• Pension scheme
• Flexible working and job share opportunities
• Promotion of a healthy work life balance
• Salary sacrifice schemes e.g. public transport loans, cycle schemes
• Staff discount schemes e.g. Discounted leisure Centre membership
• Free on-site parking (dependent on site)
• An extensive health and wellbeing package including Occupational Health, Physiotherapy and Staff Counselling services
• Support for carer.

If you want to be the Health Care Assistant that makes a difference, then we look forward to receiving your application.

Please ensure to demonstrate the essential criteria on your application in order to be shortlisted for interview.