healthcare consultant Camberley, England
Job description
We are looking for a enthusiastic full time Band 3 Health care assistant. The candidates are expected to have experience for 1 year in a hospital environment dealing with the general public. You need to be flexible and able to rotate to days, nights and weekends. This is a great opportunity for Care Assistants to take more responsibility and role in Acute Medical Care environment at Frimley Park Hospital.
AMU is a 42 bedded busy unit looking after patients with various medical conditions, these allows a great deal of exposure to areas of cardiology, respiratory, gastro enterology, endocrine, elderly care and mental health.
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, Dementia care, acute care skills are essential. Reporting any changes in patient condition and making sure your area is kept safe. Essentials skills needed are venepuncture, cannulation and catheterization. and familiar with EPIC is desirable. It also involves mentoring new staff members (care assistants).
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
- To competently undertake basic agreed clinical activities without direct
- 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
and tub grip).
- To provide the extended role of applying Plaster of Paris under senior
- To undertake venepuncture and cannulation duties under senior
- 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
- 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
- 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
Work in collaboration with all members of the multi-disciplinary
care team and promote good working relationships (including
police, ambulance, OT, physiotherapists, doctors, speciality nurses
and social services).
- To raise all safeguarding 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
- To adhere to the Trust recommendation regarding PREP
- Ensure effective communication to promote smooth transition
care environments and wards.
- Produce clear and factual documentation to the standards of the
- Record Keeping Act and demonstrate excellent telephone
- To Covid swab patients at the earliest time
