Advanced Healthcare Assistant

The Emergency Care Centre are looking for an experienced healthcare to join their team as an advanced healthcare assistant.

Our Advanced Healthcare Assistant (AHCA) roles are focused on ensuring that high quality patient centered care is delivered in a safe clinical environment.

We are committed to developing our staff through training and education, supporting you to learn new skills. We have a dedicated Clinical Educator and Practice Development team focused on ensuring our staff have the right skills to care for our patients, where clinical skills can be taught and practiced to support you in your new role. There will be opportunities to develop and gain transferable skills for your future career – which for some may include a pathway into registered nursing.

• To maintain the highest possible standards of compassionate and professional patient centered care with particular attention to privacy and dignity.
• Assist patients with personal care, hygiene and sanitary needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained at all times.
• Assist in meeting patients’ nutritional needs, including non-oral nutritional and fluid intake.
• Where identified in the plan of care, ensure that food and fluid intake and output are accurately documented on appropriate patient charts.
• Assist in skin and pressure area care to prevent pressure ulcers developing. Under the supervision of registered nurses, ensure patients are helped to move position to prevent discomfort and / or pressure ulcers developing.
• Assist patients with safe mobilisation according to their plan of care and where appropriate seek help from other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Utilise appropriate moving and handling equipment to reduce the risk of injury to the patient and themselves.
• Assist registered nursing staff in the taking and recording of vital signs as per the patient’s plan of care.
• Communicate any changes in the patient’s condition to the nurse / midwife in charge.
• Undertake a range of clinical procedures (Aseptic Dressings, cannulation, venepuncture, wound closure, catherterisation and Plastering)
• Escorting patients for Diagnostics
• Support new starters in developing their clinical skills

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Laura Brett Job title: Nurse Manager Email address: ***email_hidden*** Telephone number: View phone number on uk.workus.org