NHS Jobs
Job role: Healthcare Assistant
Salary: £25,760 to £27,476 a yea
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: B9832-2026-NM-10531
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About the Job:
- Responsible for the delivery of high quality clinical care for patients within their homes.
- Liaise with the nurse in charge and referral coordinator within the Urgent care nursing service team, and will be supported by senior clinicians & clinical manager.
- Responsible for effectively assessing, monitoring & escalating concerns regarding patient care using SBAR tool.
- To prevent & reduce hospital admissions & minimise hospital lengths of stay by supporting the multi disciplinary team with care planning using clinical skills such as manual observations using NEWS 2, venepuncture and ECG’s.
- Responsible for reporting to senior clinician on duty.
- The Urgent Care Nursing team work on a flexible rota shift system.
- The service covers 24 hours per day over seven days a week. However the Acute Virtual Ward health care assistant role runs from 08:00 – 18:00, this post is for 7.5 hour shift per day.
- The post holder will need the ability to frequently travel independently across our foot print of 260 miles in a timely manner between Livewell Southwest sites and community locations including areas not served by public transport.
- Able to provide the interface between hospital, primary care and community.
Please note that this role may be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for information.
To apply for this job please visit beta.jobs.nhs.uk.
