Healthcare Assistant

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Sefton Community Diabetes Team. We are seeking to appoint a highly enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the service as a Health Care Assistant. Successful applicant would work under the direction of the Diabetes Team Leader supporting the provision of high quality holistic nursing care to patients across the borough of Sefton. The Health Care Assistant will work without direct supervision on occasions providing care to patients in their own homes and other community settings, as delegated by the Diabetes Team Leader following appropriate training and supervision to ensure clinical competence and safe effective care.
The service operates from 8:30am-4:30pm Monday to Friday
To work as part of the Diabetes Team under the direction of the Diabetes Team leader, supporting the provision of high quality holistic nursing care to patients.
The Health Care Assistant will sometimes work without direct supervision providing care to patients in their own homes and other community settings across the borough of Sefton, as delegated by the Diabetes Team Leader following appropriate training and supervision to ensure clinical competence and safe effective care, but will also work with the trained nurse providing substantial input to patients with Diabetes
To support other health care professionals in the provision of high quality care in the locality population.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
1. Work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.
2. U ndertake a range of patient interventions within the scope of NVQ level 3 skills for patients as delegated by team leader or other qualified clinical staff.
3. Offer advice to patients and carers on a wide range of health issues to include health promotion, lifestyle advice and self-care.
4.Plan and organise own work schedule once delegated from team leader.
5.Undertake basic patient observations.
6. Work within existing clinical guidelines, policies and infection control procedures.
7. Offer advice and support to patients and families in a wide range of situations.
8. Communicate factual and sensitive information within confidentiality guidelines to patients, ensuring all information is appropriately documented and reported back to the team leader.
9. Demonstrate own role to new starters and students.
10. Ensure safe moving and handling techniques in the delivery of patient care, this can include the safe use of equipment.
11. Communicate information to multi-disciplinary team and other agencies as appropriate.
12. Undertake ordering and receipt of stores.
13. Undertake further training to gain skills in other areas.
14. Utilise NVQ level 3 skills within identified areas as required by the clinical team.
15. Deliver patient care within essence of care standards and Trust guidelines and policies.
16. Document care delivered within hand-written or electronic patient records.
17. Participate in own PDR with team leader to establish objectives, reporting arrangements, supervision and ongoing development.
18. Participate in mandatory training events.
19. Work with community groups to improve patient participation and involvement.

• The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
• The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation.