Community Healthcare AssistantinFarnboroughinFarnboroughPUBLISHED MON 28 OCT 2024
Candidates must hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a car for patient visits. The role offers ongoing training opportunities for career development and a chance to contribute to the creation and improvement of patient services. Successful applicants will be responsible for undertaking delegated nursing tasks, advising patients and carers, and ensuring compliance with training requirements, all while delivering safe and evidence-based patient care.
Farnborough Community nursing team are looking to recruit a Health Care Assistant to their team.
We are seeking to recruit someone with previous experience of working in a Hospital/Care Home or Community Nursing team who can provide excellent/effective care to our housebound patient/clients who require our services.
You will need to be an enthusiastic and experienced healthcare assistant, with a warm personality and great people skills.
You will be given additional relevant training to expand your current knowledge base to include community nursing.
Under the delegation of your senior you will be visiting patients in their own homes.
We offer a huge range of learning opportunities and opportunities for career development.
For this role you will need a UK full driving licence with access to a car for visiting patients across the areas we cover.
The post-holder will :
- Undertake clinical procedures, as delegated by senior staff, such as wound care, wound assessments, pressure area care, venepuncture including capillary INRs, catheter care and observations, for which he/she is accountable for.
- Additionally you will be given training for all nursing care tasks delegated by the senior nurse.
- Provide clinical support / personal support for patients with complex needs, under the direction of senior staff.
- Advise carers and/or patients how to manage care in between visits, and promote health education on an individual basis as directed by senior staff
- To keep up to date with statutory and mandatory training requirements.
- Offer a holistic service to patients and their families, developing where appropriate an on-going plan of care/support, with an emphasis on prevention and self-care
- Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, individualised patient care
- Work with the multi-disciplinary team/ICT, to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care
- Contribute to the ICT achieving its quality targets to sustain the high standards of patient care and service delivery
- Help develop and set up new patient services and participate in initiatives to improve existing patient services
- Be aware of and contribute to planning and delivery of practice-based commissioning
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