Healthcare Assistant Milton Keynes, England
Job description
Health Care Assistant
Department – Children’s Services (ward 4/ Ward 5)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, all MKUH roles will be considered for flexible working
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Health Care Assistants to join our existing Paediatric team to assist in delivering high quality patient focused care to our children, young people and their families across our Paediatric Assessment Unit, Paediatric Day Surgery Unit and Paediatric Inpatient Ward.
Ward 4: Paediatric Assessment Unit (PAU)
Ward 4 is open 24 hour/day, has 16 PAU beds that flexes capacity to meet the ever-changing needs of our children. We offer access to expert, evidence based and family centred assessment, treatment, and care. Also includes Paediatric Day Care Unit.
Paediatric Day Surgery Unit
6 beds area open Monday to Friday, specific for day surgery cases, including dental, urology ENT, T&O, and ophtalmology. Supported by ward 4 senior staff, we provide care to children all ages, from pre-op assessment, supporting children and families from admission to discharge.
Ward 5
Inpatient ward with 22 bed spaces, covering 0-16 years old, offering Medical, Surgical, Oncology and Orthopaedic experience. The Ward has dedicated High Dependency beds and offers every opportunity for the successful applicant to succeed and develop, providing the necessary training courses, which provide the skills and competencies to care for children on the high dependency pathway.
These Band 2 roles will require someone who is able to effectively manage their time and who loves a challenge. The successful candidates will need to be competent, caring, courageous, and compassionate, with a special interest in the care of babies, children and young people as well as their families.
The role involves supporting the Nursing Staff on our unit: this may involve completing clinical observations on children, meeting personal hygiene needs, ensuring our children eat and drink, documenting care as well as ensuring that the unit is clean and tidy, and stores are ordered and put away. You will need to be computer literate and a good knowledge of IT systems will be useful, however training will be provided.
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, in partnership with the University of Buckingham, is a University Teaching Hospital; we conduct research and teaching on site to improve the care of our patients. The hospital is undergoing significant investment, and we are proud to be rated good by the CQC. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
- Establish and maintain an open and sensitive communicative manner with children, relatives and staff.
- Accord friendly, helpful and respectful attention to everyone.
- Assist visitors to the department as necessary.
- Report any complaints or untoward incidents to the nurse in charge of the shift.
- Assist the staff to keep the ward environment clean and tidy. To include the cleaning and re-stocking of cupboards, sluice, clean utility room, store rooms, treatment rooms.
- Report any faulty equipment, to EBME and inform the nurse in charge of the shift
- Record temperature of fridges daily in kitchen, drug room, and cubicles where appropriate and take action if temperature outside limits
- Undertake errands as may be required.
- Deal with urgent dispatches of specimens as necessary.
- Demonstrate a professional approach to patients, relatives and colleagues
- Comply with all Trust policies and procedures
- Develop appropriate nursing skills for the provision of care.
- Escort/chaperone parents and children as directed by nursing or medical staff.
- Maintain children’s position and safety in bed or chair, using manual handling equipment (once trained).
- To ensure that safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children forms an integral part of all stages of the care offered to children and young people.
- Ensure menus are given out to all families, assisting with meals and ensuring snack rounds are completed.
