Healthcare Assistant

Job Introduction

At Turning Point, we support people across the UK with substance use issues. As a Healthcare Assistant, you’ll make a real difference to their lives as you develop the personal, flexible and realistic support packages they need to help turn things around. Passionate about people, you’ll enjoy the scope and support to enhance your own life too, as you make the role your own as part of a friendly and multidisciplinary team.

As a Healthcare Assistant we offer a starting salary of £25,870 rising each year in line with our pay progression salary bands, rising to £30,265 per year. (Dependent on experience you may be offered a starting salary above the initial starting salary).

You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey and clearly defined career pathways that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.

Whether you are looking to progress into a management and leadership role or to be a specialist in your field, at Turning point we will support and encourage you on your career journey.

This role is part time, working 3 days per week and involves working across our Yeovil, Mendip & Taunton services.

Role Responsibility

The Healthcare Assistant will assist in the provision of a comprehensive, high-quality and efficient Substance Use Services. The post holder will be involved in supporting staff in the delivery of both pharmacological and psychosocial interventions including assessment, implementation, care planning evaluation of patient care.

• To support and undertake substance use interventions and clinical procedures : eg participating in triage assessments and screenings, urine analysis, healthy living assessments, physical observations, ECG recording
• Ensuring appropriate entries are made on patients computerised medical records
• Supporting stock usage and stock control management
• Monitoring fridge temperatures and fridge logs and taking action when appropriate
• Recording in Controlled Drugs (CDs) registers and taking appropriate action when required
• Maintaining equipment and dispensing areas and ensuring they are kept in a clean and orderly manner
• Support the provision of opiate and alcohol detoxifications, undertaking physical detox observations including BP and reporting any concerns to the Nurse Manager
• Supporting nurse lead and GP clinics
• Participating in the safe and secure storage of medicines in accordance with all medicines legislation and Turning Point policies
• Report critical incidents using DATIX
• Participate in late, weekend and statutory holiday rotas and extended hours as required
• Take and record basic physical observations associated with alcohol detoxification and wellbeing clinics
• To undertake venepuncture where necessary supported with the appropriate training

The Ideal Candidate

Essential Requirements:

• Excellent interpersonal skills at all levels to engage, build relationships and influence colleagues and service users
• Demonstrable evidence of having worked effectively within a multi-professional team in a healthcare setting
• Plain English skills – both verbal and written to bring clarity and purpose
• Ability to tailor message to the audience and to convey clinical assessment information to wider staff
• Ability to deliver against agreed objectives and targets
• Ability to communicate effectively with community and prison colleagues using a variety of mediums
• Displays commitment to improving quality of service to Service Users
• Working knowledge of confidentiality
• Understanding of local and national safeguarding procedures
• Demonstrates knowledge of legislation/ guidance relating to medicines usage
• Recognise barriers to understanding, particularly within patient groups
• Ability to utilise medical equipment to gather physical observations and convey these with some understanding to clinical staff. Ie blood pressures

About us

About us

As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer.

We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support.

 

What Benefits Will I Receive?

We know reward looks different to each person and so whether its ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career – we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package that includes:

• 25 days’ paid holiday a year + Bank Holidays, increasing with each year of service up to 27 days + Bank Holidays. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.
• Join our team and discover the comprehensive benefits we offer by following this link to explore all the exciting perks available to our employees. Turning Point Benefits

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closing date.

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