Care Assistant Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust inCamberley inCamberley PUBLISHED SAT 4 JAN 2025

G3 Stroke Unit is a 28 bedded unit incorporating 12 hyper acute beds and 16 acute/rehab stroke patients.

A post has become available for an enthusiastic, dynamic Care Assistant, with strong interpersonal skills. In this environment you will need to have a calm but assertive manner and be able to manage a changing workload.

You will be primarily assisting the nursing team with care of the patients and will facilitate the smooth running of the department. You need to be driven and prepared to deliver high quality care and attention to detail. In this role you can look forward to a career full of development opportunities and the support from an excellent team of healthcare professionals working alongside a reliable and friendly team.

You will also have access to a full program of training and development as well as a range of employee benefits.

When joining Frimley Health, we can offer you a supportive working environment as well as training and development to meet your needs. If you have an interest in providing exceptional patient care as well as developing your clinical knowledge and skills then please apply via this vacancy.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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To undertake agreed clinical activities including collection of urine and faecal samples, swabs, recording of fluid intake/output, changing of stomas and urine drainage bags, catheter care, recording of pulse/temperature/blood pressure/saturations and NEWS scoring, and to advise the team nurse of any changes in a patients condition

To assist patients to eat and drink as required, assisting in menu selection and being aware of special diets and cultural requirements

To enable and assist patients to maintain their personal hygiene

To contribute to the safe movement of patients, using equipment to mobilise and move patients, after mobility assessment, to ensure patient comfort

To answer the ward telephone as required

To assist with discharge procedures

To maintain patient records

To tidy rooms and bed areas, to clean and strip beds and remake after patient discharge, dealing with disposal of soiled linen as per policy

To ensure ward equipment is suitably maintained and cleaned frequently

This advert closes on Tuesday 10 Dec 2024