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Job role: Healthcare Assistant
Company name: NHS Jobs
Salary: £24,071.00 to £25,674.00 per year
Job Reference: C9409-25-0363
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About the Job:
- Work as part of a team and duties will be delegated by the registered healthcare professional.
- Act within the scope of your training and competence, knowing who to ask for help and support if you are not sure.
- Work within agreed ways of working, following relevant Trust standards, policies and protocols.
- Communicate compassionately and effectively with individuals and their families, carers and health care practitioners using a range of techniques, maintaining confidentiality and using tact, empathy, persuasion and reassurance
- Observe, assess and respond to patients needs appropriately, escalating concerns to Nursing staff as required including instigating emergency procedures as per policy.
- Organises self and supervises other junior staff or learners in general work tasks or when delivering patient care with supervision from nursing staff.
- Prioritises a range of delegated clinical care duties.
- Acting on own initiative, undertake personal care duties and support activities of daily living, e.g. mouth care, personal hygiene and toileting needs, demonstrating person centred care.
- Assist the registered healthcare practitioners with clinical tasks, follow care plans, notice and report changes, assist with risk assessments, obtain samples and some specimens.
- Safely deliver care duties including manoeuvring of patient equipment such as hoists and wheelchairs.
- Gather evidence to assist registered healthcare practitioner in obtaining a patient/client history.
- Undertake delegated procedures as required within the limits of required training and measured competence e.g venepuncture / ECG recording / blood glucose monitoring, clinical observations, taking specimens, escalating any abnormalities to the registered nurse.
- Support of patients feeding, diet and nutritional needs and accurately record patients nutritional intake and fluid intake and output, noticing and reporting changes to the nursing staff.
- Ensure patient property is managed as per Trust policy.
- Monitor levels of supplies and order supplies for the department as appropriate
- Demonstrates own duties to new starters, contributing to the learning environment. Where requested, supports/supervises work of students and other junior staff.
- Occasionally participates in audits, surveys, development activities
- To work in line with Trust policies and procedures
- Contributes to maintaining a safe, healthy working environment
- Follow the principles for implementing a duty of care, always acting in the best interest of individuals to ensure they do not come to harm
- Work in partnership with the individual, their carers/families and the wider healthcare team.
- Maintain and further develop your own skills and knowledge through development and learning activities, maintain evidence of your personal development and actively prepare for and participate in appraisal
- Participate in team handovers
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