Healthcare Assistant - Sefton Suite inLiverpool inLiverpool PUBLISHED
WED 20 NOV 2024
Key responsibilities include participating in daily patient care tasks, aiding with personal hygiene, dietary needs, mobility support, and maintaining fluid balance records. The role also involves assisting in wound care, specimen collection, and ensuring patient safety through adherence to training and guidelines. The position offers the opportunity to lead by example and mentor junior staff, contributing to a collaborative and high-quality care environment in accordance with the dedicated standards of Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Healthcare Assistant - Sefton Suite Band 3Permanent37.5 hours per weekSefton Suite are looking for Band 3 Health Care Assistant to join our team. The Sefton Suite is a busy surgical ward with 16 beds based at Aintree University Hospital caring for pre and post operative patients.
The successful applicant should be an experienced band 2/3 HCA, highly motivated with good interpersonal skills and be able to work under pressure and work well within the team. They should have a keen desire to provide and maintain a high standard of care at all times.
You must be flexible days and nights to meet the needs of the ward roster and the safe staffing of our ward.
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Under the supervision of a registered nurse assisting the Ward/Department team in providing the highest possible standard of care for patients and their families/carer.
The post holder will take undertake a range of tasks and duties as delegated by a registered nurse.
You will be responsible for providing high standards of care. Your role will involve assisting the nursing staff with some clinical duties. Training will be arranged for you to achieve these skills.Being a Band 3 HCA also means you will lead by example and supervise and support junior members of staff to improve and maintain high standards of care.
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For a full list of duties, please refer to the attached job description and person specificationClinical Responsibilities
- Participates in all aspects of patient care with particular attention to personal hygiene and grooming.
- Provision of patients toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
- Support of patients in managing incontinence and promotion of continence.
- The accurate recording of a patients fluid intake and output using fluid balance charts.
- Preparation and serving of patients meals, drinks and snacks. Assisting / feeding patients as necessary.
- The recording of patients dietary intake when indicated in the patients plan of care.
- Enable patients to maintain/improve their mobility by use of exercise and mobility appliances.
- Assist in the prevention of pressure sore development as directed by the Registered nurse in conjunction with the patients plan of care
- Carry out any movement and handling within the safe practice guidelines from your mandatory training and in relation to the patients manual handling plan.
- Obtaining specimens from patients for ward or laboratory testing.Removal of cannula and catheters.
- Undertake the dressing of non-complex wounds (in accordance with identified competencies and in conjunction with the plan of care).It is paramount that patient safety in maintained at all times
- Be responsible for maintaining your Mandatory and Role Specific Training.
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