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Healthcare Assistant - Ward 22

Liverpool

Full-Time

Immediately

Job Description

Are you interested in joining our excellent team to maintain our high standards of holistic care to acute, weaning, and chronic respiratory patients? Do you have the skills we are looking for to ensure we get it right for every patient, every time?

Healthcare Assistant - Ward 22
Permanent
Full-time

Ward 22 is looking to recruit motivated Healthcare Assistants in a permanent position. We are a 36-bedded ward that provides support to patients who have respiratory diseases including:

  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Asthma
  • Pleural effusions
  • Bronchiectasis
  • Many other respiratory diseases

We are looking for committed, compassionate, and caring individuals who want to make a positive difference to people's lives.

Please be advised that this post will close once sufficient applications have been received, so please apply soon if interested.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, and Royal Liverpool University Hospital. We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities—from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services, including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic, and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single-site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Assist patients in meeting their hygiene needs and carry out all aspects of personal care and grooming (to include emptying catheter bags).
  • Provision of patients' toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
  • Support patients in managing incontinence.
  • Measure patient fluid intake and output using fluid balance charts and report information to Registered Nurse.

Job Requirements

Work permit in United Kingdom: Required

English language skill: Intermediate (B1)

Driver's license: Not required

Suitable Qualifications

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