Health Care Assistant

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and proactive health care assistant to join the rapid intervention team within the community urgent care service. The service responds to patients who require urgent assessments within the community serving the city of Wolverhampton. Our UCR services work with patients in their homes to avoid hospital admission where they are experiencing acute episodes of ill health as well as providing urgent response to our service users who have telecare and require assistance.

The successful applicant would provide support to clinicians in supporting assessments undertaking simple clinical and therapeutic procedures such as taking clinical observations, obtaining samples, catheter care and venepuncture as well as responding to telecare alarms including supporting patients who have fallen without injury and/ or where there is a concern for welfare. Your day will be varied and interesting with opportunity to learn new skills and treat people in a place they like to call home.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Please see attached Job Description/Person Specification for a full detail of role and main responsibilities