Health Care Assistant Camberley, England
Job description
This is a great opportunity for our ED Care Assistants to take more responsibility and role in Emergency Care. The advert is for Care Assistants with Emergency Care experience of more than at least a year.
Please read roles and responsibilities on job description.
You will be working with the nursing and multi disciplinary team to deliver high quality patient care to patients and relatives.
You will be supporting the nursing staff in ensuring the all the documentation is up to date, reporting any changes in patient condition and making sure your area is kept safe and stocked.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
To provide professional competent basic nursing care to patients and
relatives without direct supervision.
To competently undertake basicagreed clinical activities without direct
supervision.
To prioritise own workload and make independent minor decisions.
To provide Health Education and Promotion to both patients and
relatives.
To provide basic wound care following training (under senior supervision
until evidence of competency has been demonstrated, including aseptic
technique and obtaining wound swabs correctly and application of slings
and tubigrip).
To provide the extended role of applying Plaster of Paris under senior
supervision following completion of training and evidence of competency.
To undertake venepunture and cannulation duties under senior
supervision following completion of training and evidence of competency.
To process blood samples through POC machines.
To ensure blood results are signed by medical staff.
Assist in the discharge planning.
To assist patients with hygiene needs while maintaining patient dignity.
To promote good hand washing technique in conjunction with infection
control policies/protocols.
To accurately record patient observations and report findings to the
qualified named nurse.
Accurately record ECG’s on completion of training and report back to the
qualified named nurse following interpretation by doctor.
Assist named nurse with care of the bereaved following completion of
training.
To provide support to all colleagues both senior and junior staff.
To act as a role model to junior staff and learners in the emergency
department environment on completion of training.
Work in collaboration with all members ofthe multi-disciplinary
care team and promote good working relationships (including;
police, ambulance, OT, physiotherapists, doctors, speciality nurses
and social services).
To raise all safe guarding issues to the nurse in charge.
To observe all health and safety regulations and to keep updated in training in accordance with the Trust policies.
To be part responsible for own development and undertake update
training to meet demands of the post.
To adhere to the Trust recommendation regarding PREP
Ensure effective communication to promote smooth transition
between speciality units/wards and safely escort patients between
care environments and wards.
Produce clear and factual documentation to the standards of the
Record Keeping Act and demonstrate excellent telephone
communication skills and messenger service.
To Covid swab patients at the earliest time
