Job Details: £21.73k – £23.18k per annum
This is an exciting post which allows the successful candidate the opportunity to work as part of the AMU team in LUHFT. The role involves supporting qualified practitioners to deliver high levels of care to patients in an acute setting.
The successful candidate should have demonstrable experience working in a hospital setting at NVQ Level 2 or working toward NVQ Level 3
Main duties of the job
Under the supervision of a registered nurse, the post holder will assist the department team in providing the highest possible standard of care for patients and their families/carer. The post holder will undertake a range of tasks and duties as delegated by a registered nurse
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Participates in all aspects of patient care with particular attention to personal hygiene and grooming
Provision of patients toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
Support of patients in managing incontinence and promotion of continence
Recording of a patients fluid intake and output using fluid balance charts
Preparation and serving of patients meals, drinks and snacks, assisting and feeding patients as necessary
Recording of patients dietary intake when indicated in the patients plan of care
Enable patients to maintain/improve their mobility by use of exercise and mobility appliances
Assist in the prevention of pressure sore development as directed by the registered nurse in conjunction with the patients plan of care.
Removal of cannula, catheters
Undertake the dressing of non-complex wounds (in accordance with identified competencies and in conjunction with the plan of care)
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates a willingness & capability to undertake NVQ level 3
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience in hospital setting working at NVQ level 2
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Reputation for high standard of patient care
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the Healthcare setting
- Basic Computer Skills
Other
Essential criteria
- Supportive of colleagues and patients
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum amount of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
The Trust is committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community.
We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, asian and minority ethnic (BAME), lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBT), disabled, male and age 16-24
Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £18+£5 (standard disclosure) or £38+£5 (enhanced disclosure) can be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment.
From April 2017, Tier 2 visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.
Trust expects that all post holders who require a DBS for their role are registered with the DBS Update Service. You can find out more information and guidance on how to do this at https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service. The Trust requires all staff to be DBS checked on an ongoing basis.
If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on Show phone number at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.
Please Note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first paypoint of the relevant band.