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Health Care Assistant Hospital @ Home

Employer
Mid and South Essex NH
Location
Basildon Hospital, Basildon
Salary
Competitive salary
Closing date
13 May 2021

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Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest trusts in the country, serving a population of 1.2 million people. Our newly formed Trust, comprising acute hospital sites at Broomfield in Chelmsford, Basildon and Southend, is determined to provide the best health services for its local population. We are a well-led, high-performing and innovative organisation working in the best interests of the people we serve.

With a workforce of approximately 15,000 staff, we can now do more and go further in delivering health services to our local communities.

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

Patients will experience improved care as well as fewer delays and cancellations. We are able to provide more once-in-a-lifetime specialist care region-wide. With our new trust size will come more opportunities for development, research, networking and innovation.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

We will deliver safe and high-quality services and be an employer of choice for our workforce.

We are ' one team, working together' .

The Hospital @ Home team have formed a Covid Testing team, to support the trust in ensuring patients can safely attend appointments and procedures. Where patients are unable to use a drive through centre to have a swab taken, Hospital @ Home will visit the patient at their home. In addition to the swabbing team, we are also providing a venepuncture service for vulnerable patients and patients that are unable to travel to the hospital.

The Health Care Assistant will function as part of the Hospital @ Home Team taking samples for testing from patients, this includes both swabs and blood testing. Their duties will include swabbing, venepuncture, taking observations, simple dressings and supporting the Hospital @ Home nursing team, under the supervision of the Senior nurses in the team.

Post available is split between Basildon and Southend Sites to support both areas, which will serve each sites surrounding area up to a 30 mile radius. We have a full time post but are able to negotiate part time post flexibly.

Post holders will be given training in swabbing and phlebotomy through a competency framework. It is expected that the Health Care Assistant will continue to develop their own capabilities and knowledge of nursing tasks in line with the Trusts career pathway.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name Kellie Hil

lJob title Operational Lead H@H

Email address [email protected]

Telephone number 07711 079346

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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