Healthcare Assistant Job at Blackpool NHS Trust

Healthcare Assistant Job at Blackpool NHS Trust – Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance.  Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored. 

Person specification

Education and qualifications

Essential criteria

• Care certificate is essential or be willing to work towards completing on successful appointment to the post

Desirable criteria

• IT qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Knowledge and/or experience of care and related procedures.
• Experience with manual handling of patients, using moving aids
• Experience of completing patient care records

Desirable criteria

• Experience and involvement of an improvement project/s
• Experience of holding an area of responsibility relating to training/audit

Skills, ability and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge and/or experience of personal care and related procedures
• Able to accurately update patient records for care delivered including changes to patient condition
• Ability to communicate factual information clearly and effectively with tact and empathy overcoming barriers to communication such as physical impairments or mental health/learning disabilities
• Ability to carry out routine duties acting on own initiative with limited supervision.
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as on own initiative with access to supervision.
• Understands confidentiality
• Ability to follow Trust policy’s relevant to the role.
• Be able to participate in audits that are relevant to the role.
• Ability to use IT skills proficiently on using relevant IT systems.
• Ability to deliver (with appropriate training and competency assessment) a range of clinical/technical skills and care duties such as (but not limited to): clinical observations, blood glucose monitoring, ECG’s, simple wound dressings
• Able to supervise others e.g. T- level students, new B3 HCA’s, Band 2 HCA’s

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Caring Adaptable to the changing needs of the service Self-motivated Enthusiastic Approachable Diplomatic Innovative Flexible Responsible and accountable

Accepting applications until: 28-Nov-2025 23:59