Healthcare Assistant

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust • Full-time • Smethwick, ENG, GB • £23.62k / year • 2m ago

Do you want a career as a health care assistant in helping to make a difference? do you enjoy and thrive when working as a part of a multidisciplinary team? do you have excellent communication skills and enjoy being an advocate for vulnerable adults?

If so we are looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our NHS family at the brand new Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH) within Sandwell and west Birmingham NHS Trust across our specialist surgical services department. This includes our acute trauma ward A7, our elective orthopaedic ward B6 and post acute step-down area within B8.

We welcome applicants who do not hold Level 2 in direct care but have experience. Please note if you do not hold Level 2 you will be expected to undertake this on commencement of your employment

As a Health Care assistant within trauma and orthopaedics you will be supporting patients with their personal, tailored individual needs. This will include washing, dressing and toileting, taking patient meal orders ensuring to order what is right for them and identifying different dietary needs. Serving meals and helping to feed patient who can no longer do this for themselves, helping patients to mobilise and to move around, making beds, monitoring patient conditions by carrying out observations, be able to use computers to input patient information onto our electronic record systems.

You must have excellent communications skills and be able to communicate any concerns that you may have or if you feel as though a patient is deteriorating or doesn't seem right, you must be able to communicate with patients, doctors, therapists and patient families. you must be friendly and approachable and willing to learn.

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:

1. Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff

2. Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do

3. Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details on what this role entails,