Band 3 Healthcare Assistant - Hayes Ward (formerly Grange Ward)

Band 3 Healthcare Assistant - Hayes Ward (formerly Grange Ward) Uxbridge, England

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Full Time Uxbridge, England 27129 - 28649 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

An opportunity has arisen to join Hayes Ward at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 3 Healthcare Assistant. The post holder will assist the qualified staff in carrying out patient care, ensuring comfort, privacy, and dignity.

Hayes Ward is a 30-bedded unit providing care for acute elderly patients with various medical illnesses. As part of our multi-disciplinary team, you will help to deliver a high quality of care and support to our patients to enable them to achieve a safe discharge home or to a care setting more relevant to their needs.

An interview date is yet to be confirmed.

Please note: this vacancy may close earlier than expected once a suitable number of applications have been received.

  • To carry out agreed clinical activities with the patient including giving treatments and dressings, obtaining specimens including blood from patients and measuring and monitoring physical characteristics/condition of patients under the directions of the registered practitioner.
  • To prepare and provide agreed patient activities, as pertinent to your area. This includes planning and preparing activities around agreed needs and evaluating the usefulness of the activities with other members of the team. Group exercises, walks around the grounds; assist the occupational therapists.
  • To prepare the patient and assist with clinical procedures, such as catheterisation, wound dressings.
  • Serve meal/beverages and assist with feeding as required. To ensure that patients are given appropriate food and nutritional information and to report any problems to the relevant professional. Weigh patients on admission and weekly thereafter depending on medical condition.
  • To help patients to look after themselves and maintain their personal hygiene. To wash and bath the medically unwell patient, in bed or in the bathroom. To promote independence in well patients. To care for patient’s mouths, hair, nails, feet and pressure areas. To help patient to dress and undress.
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services, including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics, and maternity services. The Trust’s services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit, and outpatient clinics.

The safety and well-being of our patients and staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this – particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress by working in partnership with local GPs, charities, community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals, and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are focused on ensuring that our hospitals provide high quality, safe, and compassionate care, while we drive forward with the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.

We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.

Band 3 Healthcare Assistant - Hayes Ward (formerly Grange Ward)
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

www.nhs.uk
London, United Kingdom
Amanda Pritchard
$5 to $25 million (USD)
10000+ Employees
Government
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1946
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