Healthcare Assistant London, England
Job description
North London Hospice is a registered charity, that has been caring for local people since 1984.
We are looking for a Band 2 Healthcare Assistant to join our friendly and growing inpatient unit team providing specialist palliative care to patients in our 18-bedded unit. This is a full time post which includes rotation onto both day and night shifts, including weekends.
If you are an experienced Band 2 Healthcare Assistantand feel passionate about patient care and would relish a new challenge, then we would love to hear from you.
What’s more, we are committed to offering a healthy work/life balance, with accessible mental health support, an extensive range of lifestyle and health benefits and excellent training and development opportunities.
To be a productive member of the Inpatient Unit palliative care team, delivering holistic, skilled, high-quality patient-centred care and directly assisting other staff in clinical procedures and adherence to the CQC fundamental standards.
North London Hospice is a registered charity that has been caring for local people since 1984. We are committed to empowering patients with life limiting illnesses, supporting them to achieve the best quality of life possible. As well as our inpatient unit at Woodside Avenue, we work within the wider community including our Outpatient and Wellbeing services; our support to patients in their own homes; our Community Specialist Palliative Care services; and our Patient and Family Support teams, providing emotional and practical support to patients, their families and carers.
The Inpatient Unit palliative care team provide holistic, skilled, high-quality and patient centred palliative care to all in-patients.
- Delivering clinical care to patients as detailed in care plans, providing care on apriority basis; assisting with clinical procedures, recording clinical observations and supporting patients to meet their nutritional and hydration needs; ensuring accurate documentation of all patient records; assisting with discharge and transfer of patients to other areas as well as end of life and deceased patient care
- Washing, dressing, assisting with self-care, pressure area care using repositioning and relevant pressure aids, escorting to external appointments as agreed by the multidisciplinary team,
- Reporting and recording changes in patient condition promptly to RN or senior on duty; nutritional and hydration activity; bowel action and fluid output; SSKIN care bundle; completion of any appropriate individualised documentation relating to the safe care of named patients and maintaining consistent and continuous communication across the team on all patient information
- Following appropriate training and competency assessment administration of nebulised medication, checking the accurate running of syringe drivers, assessment and documentation of the condition of skin surrounding the syringe driver needle and location of transdermal medication patches, safe management of oxygen equipment and any other appropriate duties following relevant training
- Supporting family members and significant others, treating them with empathy and dignity and proactively advocating for patients
- Any other reasonable duties required within the scope of the rol
