We are looking for an enthusiastic full-time Band 3 Health Care Assistant. The candidates are expected to have at least 1 year of experience in a UK hospital environment dealing with the public. You need to be flexible and able to rotate to days, nights, weekends, and bank holidays. This is a great opportunity for Care Assistants to take on more responsibility in the Acute Medical Care environment at Frimley Park Hospital.
AMU is a 42-bedded busy unit looking after patients with various medical conditions, providing great exposure to areas of cardiology, respiratory, gastroenterology, endocrine, elderly care, and mental health.
You will be working with the nursing and multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality patient care to patients and relatives.
You will support the nursing staff in ensuring that all documentation is up to date. Dementia care and acute care skills are essential.
Your responsibilities will include:
1. Reporting any changes in a patient's condition and ensuring your area is kept safe.
2. Essential skills needed are venepuncture, cannulation, and catheterization. Familiarity with EPIC is desirable.
3. Mentoring new staff members (Care Assistants).
4. Providing professional, competent basic nursing care to patients and relatives without direct supervision.
5. Competently undertaking basic agreed clinical activities without direct supervision.
6. Prioritizing your own workload and making independent minor decisions.
7. Providing Health Education and Promotion to both patients and relatives.
8. Providing basic wound care following training under senior supervision until evidence of competency has been demonstrated, including aseptic technique and obtaining wound swabs correctly, and application of slings and tub grip.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first-class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management, leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work-life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognizing that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours. We do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
For further details, please refer to Job Description/Person Specification.
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