Healthcare Assistant

We have several excitingpermanent opportunities at the Southend site of Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust for Health Care Assistants.

The job requires someone that exudes our Trust Values: Excellent, Compassionate and Respectful. Although experience is not necessary for this role as full training is provided, having worked in care, or provided care would be advantageous to the role.

The Health Care assistant will function as part of the multi-disciplinary team within the ward or department to provide a seamless service & high-quality care to patients under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust encourages our Health Care Assistants to continually develop their own capabilities and knowledge of nursing tasks in line with the Trust's career pathways, These posts require you to commit to Shift work which will include, weekends, Bank holidays and nights. In general, our day shifts start at 7:00 and finish at 19:30. Night shifts start at 19:00 and finish at 7:30 (some wards may differ slightly). Shift Rota are planned 4-8 weeks in advance.

Full list of duties can be found in the attached Job Description however some of your duties will include the following:

At all times maintain the dignity and respect of patients

Assist in the admission process by accurately recording patient's demographic details

To assist patients with personal and oral hygiene as instructed

To assist patients with eating and drinking

Monitoring and accurate recording of dietary and fluid intake appropriately reporting any abnormalities to the nurse in charge

Enable patients to access appropriate toilet facilities, collecting and disposing of body waste

Testing blood sugars, urine and stool specimens & accurately record results

The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together key health, care, community, and voluntary sector organisations from across our area. Our aim is to work together in partnership to join up health and care services, improving our populations health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. One such example of this collaborative work is the launch of our HCA Academy, an ICS initiative between Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) and Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT) to support the incoming Health Care assistant (HCA) workforce. The academy models a 'one workforce' cross system approach to the onboarding, induction, education, and experience of Healthcare Assistants.