To assist qualified nursing staff with direct and indirect patient care within clearly defined limits and attainment of defined competence. To work without constant direct supervision using initiative within the level of competence for the post.
• Acknowledge your personal and professional limitations liaising with and referring to midwives and relevant professionals at all times.
• To provide care that respects women's privacy, dignity, culture and ethnicity, maintaining appropriate confidentiality.
• To provide advice as appropriate within own sphere/limitations of practice.
• To promote monitor and maintain health, safety and security of women, their families, colleagues and self in the work place.
• Participate in health promotion activities including smoking cessation, diet, active lifestyles and breast feeding.
• Encourage and support women and their partners to actively engage and be responsible for their own health and well-being and that of their baby.
• Perform relevant observations i.e. pulse, blood pressure, temperature, body mass index measurement and urine testing.
• Assist in the implementation of packages of care with families, which include providing assistance/advice regarding feeding (adhering to the Trust Baby Friendly Policy), hygiene, safety and support the establishment of parenting skills
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
The postholder:-
· Carry out all duties in a professional, compassionate and courteous manner.
· To ensure that no action or omission on your part is detrimental to the condition, safety, well-being and interest of the patients.
· To attend to the hygiene needs of patients by assisting with:
o Bathing in bathroom
o Washing at bedside
o Bed bathing
o Oral hygiene
o Dressing of patients
o Bedmaking, e.g. routine, theatre beds, discharge beds
· To attend to the toileting needs of patients including:
o Giving and removing bed pans
o Assisting patients on and off commodes/sani-chairs or toilets
· To assist patients eating and drinking by:
o Serving meals to patients in bed or at the table
· To attend to general tidiness of ward including unpacking and storage of ward stock deliveries.
· To answer the telephone and relay messages appropriately
· To undertake ward errands as required
· In the absence of the ward clerk, admit, transfer and discharge on Electronic Patient Records (EPR) system
· At all times treat women, visitors and colleagues with dignity and respect, exercising discretion and behaving in a manner consistent with the CHFT standards of behavior.
· To maintain confidentiality in all aspects of work
· Work in a collaborative and co-operative manner with other members of the care team.
· To maintain Trust policy regarding Control of Infections
· To undertake training re Manual Handling and adhere to principals taught
· To follow Health and Safety policies relevant to working environment and attend mandatory updates in accordance with Trust policy
· Undertake duties that you have received appropriate training for and have been deemed competent
· To adhere to Trust policies and procedures
· To establish and maintain effective communication and relationships with multi-disciplinary team
· Contribute to the development of clinical area, through contribution of new ideas to improve patient care/experience
· Must be able to undertake other tasks appropriate to the ward environment with necessary training e.g.:
o To undertake observations and recording of TPR and weight
o Taking and recording blood pressure, pulse, temperature, respirations and oxygen saturations
o Fluid intake and output of patients
o Report findings to a trained nurse and if appropriate to medical staff
o Use of Manual handling equipment – Arjo bath hoists, overhead tracking
o Recording of patient information e.g. Athena
o Attending training in the use of medical devices
o Measuring and supplying patient with correct TED stockings
o Recording pain scores
o Waterlow score and provide correct pressure relieving mattress
o Pressure area care and use of correct topical medication
o Preparation of dressing trolleys
o Simple wound dressings i.e. to drain sites
o Ward test urine/pregnancy test
o MRSA screening of patients
o To collect specimens of urine, sputum or faeces as requested and according to ward procedures to assist patients in completing ward menus.
o To accompany patients to other departments as deemed appropriate by the nurse in charge other duties according to ward training
o Assist with infant feeding
o Demonstrate/ undertake baby cares
o Taking patients to theatre
o Collecting blood from Path Lab
o Testing and recording blood sugar
o Giving of suppositories/enemas
o Removal of venflons
o Care of catheters and naso-gastric tubes
This advert closes on Sunday 10 Nov 2024
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