Advanced Healthcare Assistant - Community Nursing Team

You will work within the District Nursing team visiting patients within their own home settings to carry out planned nursing care.,

• The Community Advanced Health Care Assistant (CAHCA) as a member of a community nursing team will;
• Carry out delegated work in accordance with the vocational competencies and local/national policies.
• Duties will be assigned by and carried out under the direct or indirect supervision of a registered nurse, according to the individual patient care plan.
• Duties include discussion and reporting of any changes in the patient's condition to the registered nurse on a daily basis.
• Where additional skills training is identified as required by the job description, the post holder will not undertake those duties until training has been undertaken (except as part ofthe supervised learning experience).
• Be an effective member of the Network to which the post holder is attached.
• The Trust is committed to supporting staff to gain the necessary skills and qualifications to meet the role.
  
  The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve. Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH. As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology. We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.