# Senior Health Care Assistant

**Company**: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Farnborough Common, Kent
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £30630.00 to £32346.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking compassionate and dedicated Healthcare Assistants to join our acute admission wards teams. You will play a vital role in supporting adults experiencing mental health challenges, offering them hope and stability during a difficult time.

**Why you'll love working here:**

- Make a Real Impact: Provide compassionate care and support to patients during a critical time in their lives.

- Supportive Team: Join a collaborative and friendly team that values your contribution and offers opportunities for growth.

- Develop Your Skills: Access excellent training and development programs to advance your career in the NHS.

- Competitive Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package alongside the intrinsic rewards of working within the NHS.

**Main duties of the job:**

- Work as directed by a registered nurse.

- Provide physical care to patients in accordance with their care plan.

- Maintain confidentiality and security.

- Adhere to all organisational and ward policies, procedures and guidelines.

- Ensure good working relationships with patients, carers, relatives, other professionals and prison and healthcare staff.

- Develop an understanding of and demonstrate use of clinical supervision to reflect upon and modify practice.

- Behave at all times in a professionally acceptable manner.

**Job responsibilities:**

- Assist patients with all activities of daily living.

- Work at the direction of registered nurses.

- Communicate effectively with patients and the multi-disciplinary team.

- Participate in planning and liaison activities for patients.

- Inform a registered nurse as soon as possible when any change in a patient's condition is noticed.

- Support patients in coping with change due to admission, discharge, death or personal loss.

- Report any complaints or requests for information from patients immediately to the senior nurse on duty.

- Use resources effectively.

- Report all risks to the senior nursing staff.

- Assist in the general running of the department.

- Participate in appraisal and training to develop a personal development plan.

- Undertake any other duties commensurate to the grade and as requested by the line manager.

**Person Specification:**

- Education: NVQ Health and Social Care Level 3.

- Experience: Experience of working directly with patients for 1 year.

- Skills: Excellent communication skills, able to or willing to lead on patient engagement group activities.

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## Skills

### Required
- NVQ Health and Social Care Level 3
- Excellent communication skills

### Nice to have
- Experience of working on inpatient setting
- Training and experience in specialist skills such as ECG, Vital Signs, Phlebotomy

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