Healthcare Assistant London, England
Job description
We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative team player to join the Private Patients Unit at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
This is an exciting opportunity for a talented individual with multiple skills and an appetite for delivering a first class service to join the team in one of the UKs most successful and progressive NHS Foundation Trusts.
The private patients unit is a dedicated inpatient facility consisting of 12 en-suite rooms, with newly refurbished day case pods in the Chelsea Wing and also an Outpatients Unit, Westminster Wing. The Chelsea Wing provides care for patients from a wide range of specialities including gynaecology, general surgery, bariatric, orthopaedic, plastic surgery and finally specialist medicine and oncology.
The private patient unit is embedded at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital alongside our NHS services and, because of this; we retain strong links with NHS nursing leadership and development. All of the staff who work within the private patients unit are employed by the NHS.
You will gain vast clinical knowledge and understand a broad range of acute/complex medical and surgical conditions, and associated comorbidities.
We are currently recruiting for band 2 healthcare assistants. This is an opportunity for a dynamic and committed individual to join our friendly team of nurses who work within a wider team of multidisciplinary specialists and medical staff.
- Main duties includes assisting the ward nurses and supporting the ward manager to run a busy and dynamic private patients unit.
- Will ensure the environment is clean, comfortable, safe, and welcoming to patients, relatives and all health care workers.
- Pro-actively raise concerns about the provision of services to service users with supervisor and managers.
- Will demonstrate an understanding of basic infection control techniques, the disposal of sharps and universal safety techniques with regard to spillages.
- Supervise and share responsibility for the cleaning and maintenance of equipment and relevant labelling.
- Supervise and share responsibility for reporting any faulty or broken equipment to the Registered Nurse/ Midwife and appropriate labelling.
- Supervise and share responsibility for delivering specimens, test requests, notes or any charts as requested.
We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.
Clinical Support Role:
- Under indirect supervision assist with the delivery of care for a cohort of patients as identified by the Registered Nurse/ Midwife.
- Assist patients with their care needs as required reporting any change in the patient’s condition to the registered nurse/ midwife.
- Work with the Registered Nurse/ Midwife and other health professionals with the mobilization or transfer of patients.
- Demonstrate awareness of patients in pain and discomfort and report any changes in the patient’s condition to the registered Nurse/ Midwife.
- Demonstrate an awareness of patient’s dietary needs, delivering meals, providing patients with drinks where necessary and providing assistance with eating and drinking if required.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the different needs of individual patients and their carers/ families.
- Demonstrate an awareness of vulnerable patients and their safe guarding needs.
- Under indirect supervision, take and record the patients observations (e.g. temperature, blood pressure) as required and inform the registered nurse/ midwife of any changes in the patient’s condition.
