Healthcare Assistant London, England
Job description
We are looking for Healthcare Assistant to work as part of the team, maintaining good working relationships with patients, relatives and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
To deal with enquiries from patients, visitors and staff, as directed by qualified staff, in accordance with department practices, ensuring that patient confidentially is maintained at all times.
Healthcare Assistant Band 2
Hours: 37.5 per week Full Time
Shifts: Long days and nights
Tenure: Permanent
Site: Northwick Park Hospital
At London North West Hospital NHS Trust we recognize the value of care and compassion in health care and have an exciting opportunity for Healthcare Assistants to join our team providing excellent care to our patients within the Acute Medical Unit.
With the patient at the centre of all you do, we are looking for compassionate, enthusiastic and confident, experienced, Nursing Assistants, who are able under supervision, to provide the highest standard of care. You will need to be able to prioritise, work under pressure and have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
Being a member of staff here means treating everyone with respect. It means working together and embracing change to achieve excellence in every part of the hospital. Most of all, it means encompassing a desire to take personal responsibility for ensuring our patients get the highest quality care they deserve. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment.
We want all our Nursing Assistants to become successful, competent and confident carers so we are committed to ensuring the ongoing development of a wide range of skills and knowledge.
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWUH) is one of the integrated NHS Trusts in the country. Our team of more than 8,000 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of approximately one million people providing hospital services to the people of Brent, Harrow and beyond.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
To find out more about our Trust, why not view our videowe are London North West University Healthcare
LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation; we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We are looking for Healthcare Assistant to work as part of the team, maintaining good working relationships with patients, relatives and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
To deal with enquiries from patients, visitors and staff, as directed by qualified staff, in accordance with department practices, ensuring that patient confidentially is maintained at all times.
To ensure that attention is paid to patients’ individual needs.
To ensure under the direction of a qualified nurse that patients personal hygiene needs are attended to and that all patients receive the desired standard of care as per care plan.
To assist in bathing patients and attending to hygiene needs, reporting any variation in skin condition to the qualified nurse.
To carry out under supervision eye/ mouth/ skin and hair care treatment.
Under the direction of a qualified nurse, obtain specimens e.g. urine, and blood.
To sit with and support patients during minor treatments.
Assist the and nursing staff in patient positioning and exercises ensuring the patient is moved and lifted in accordance with current moving and handling techniques.
To have an understanding with regard to asepsis, undertake clinical observations e.g. temperatures, pulse, respirations, peak flow measurements and blood pressure recordings.
