Urgent Care Healthcare Assistant - Band 2

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Job description

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We have an exciting opportunity within the Urgent Care Services and are looking for enthusiastic and motivated Healthcare Assistants (HCAs) to join our team.

We are recruiting HCAs to drive, and work with our clinicians in the community as part of our Rapid Response Service.

You will be supporting practitioners to assess patients and deliver care as part of our new falls service, this will include a rotation onto nights to assist our Overnight Urgent Care Services which comprise of the Rapid Response Team and the Out of Hours Community Nursing Service.

Rapid Response is an acute medical admission alternative service for patients registered with a Gloucestershire GP. The service operates 24/7 covering an area approximately 1200 sq./miles in all weathers. The Out of Hours Community Nursing Service provides patients with urgent nursing intervention and holistic care in their own home.

You will also be responsible for the service vehicles and must ensure they are clean, road worthy, equipped, stocked and well maintained.

Hours are 0 and 2 on a rota covering 7 days a week.

Gloucestershire Health and Care Foundation Trust provides high quality community healthcare services across Gloucestershire and our staff are passionate about upholding the values and principles of this Trust.

To be considered for this vacancy you must be double vaccinated against COVID 19

For informal discussion please contact Urgent Care Operational Lead:

Sandra Potente -

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Closing date: 13.12.2021

Shortlisting date: 14.12.2021

As a Health Care Assistant/ Support Worker you will be responsible for participating and assisting in the delivery of care / services to patients and service users as part of a Mental Health and Social Care Health Service. Health Care Assistant, Social Care Workers and other Healthcare Support Workers employed by the Trust are required to follow the guidance set out in Code of Conduct for Health Care Assistants/ Health Care Support Workers to provide safe and compassionate care of a high standard, and to challenge others who are not.

You will receive direct supervision and partake in reflective practice / training on a regular basis and be required to meet the Care Certificate standards. All successful applicants will also have the opportunity to discuss the prospect of undertaking a Level 3 Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship alongside their substantive post. This apprenticeship would include the Level 3 Diploma in Clinical Healthcare.

This post requires the post holder to be able to undertake all statutory and mandatory training and post holders must be able to undertake physical interventions. Fitness for physical intervention will be assessed by Occupational Health.

A valid UK driving licence plus the use of own transport for business purposes is essential. For qualifying staff the Trust has a Lease Car Scheme in place and also offers a popular Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme with our partner Tusker.

To ensure you fully understand how the Trust, as a Data Controller, will process and store your data please read the attached document 'Applicant and Staff Privacy Notice' prior to applying for the role.

Candidates for any staff appointment shall, when making application, disclose in writing to the Trust whether they are related to any governor. Failure to disclose such a relationship may disqualify a candidate and, if appointed, may render them liable to dismissal.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust are proud to have been recognised as a 'Veteran Aware Trust', evidencing the provision of the best care for Veterans and driving to improve the care for veterans and their families. Find out more about this by clicking on the link at the right-hand side, titled 'Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance'.
Applicants who have been shortlisted will be contacted via NHS Jobs. Please check your account regularly. If you do not hear from us within 3 weeks of the closing date you have probably not been shortlisted. We are sorry that on some occasions we are unable to let you know the outcome of your application personally. The Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.

Please note that all candidates who declare themselves on their application form to be disabled and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted in accordance with the Trust's Two Ticks Pledge on disability.

Applicants should note that all appointments to GHCNHSFT are subject to the completion of a satisfactory 6 month probation period.(excluding Medical Staffing appointments).

Successful candidates are expected to self-fund either an enhanced or standard or basic DBS check, and sign up to the DBS update service if required for the role.

Please note that if you are successful in your application and you have previously worked for an NHS Trust, GHCNHSFT will request confirmation of your previous NHS service from your last NHS employer via the inter authority transfer system to verify service, pension, sick pay entitlement and pay grade. Your permission will be sought at application and /or later in the process.

Flexible working arrangements will be considered. Any request will be set against genuine operational requirements and limitations and it is not obligatory for a manager to accede to the request.

For positions Band 8a and above there is a requirement to participate in an on-call rota to ensure a high quality of care for patients at all times and continued support to all staff with access to the right knowledge and expertise. For further information on this please consult the job description.

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