Healthcare Assistant-Stour Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for committed, enthusiastic and highly motivated healthcare assistants to join our team in our Stour Centre at Ipswich hospital.

Healthcare assistants are a key part of our team and support the Registered Nurses in providing high quality care to our patients.

Do you want to be part of a team with an excellent reputation for delivering a high standard of care, ensuring we keep our patients safe and that they have a positive experience under our care.

Our Healthcare Assistant's work a rota pattern, so you MUST be able to work a variety of shifts, including days, nights and weekends including Bank Holidays for example Christmas Day. We are unable to offer set shifts patterns.

Please note you may be required to undertake a Numeracy & Literacy test as part of the pre-employment checks.

Please see our leaflet about aA day in the life of an Inpatient HCA - 1 (pagetiger.com)https://view.pagetiger.com/dvtipti/1

Main duties of the job

To meet the direct and indirect care needs of patients under the delegation and supervision of a Registered Professional

To ensure high standards of patient care at all times, in line with Trust policies and guidelines

To work as an effective member of the nursing and wider multi-professional healthcare team

To work within the boundaries of the role of the HCA supporting more junior colleagues as required and refer to the Registered Nurse as appropriate

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

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