Healthcare Assistant (Band 3) - Community nursing - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust – Merseyside
An exciting opportunity has arisen within Sefton Place; as part of a leg ulcer service pilot. We are seeking to appoint a highly enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the service as a Health Care Assistant. The successful applicant will work under the direction of the leg ulcer nurse, Team Leader/Clinical leads supporting the provision of high-quality holistic specialist nursing care to patients. The Health Care Assistant will work without direct supervision on occasions, providing care to patients in the community and clinic settings following appropriate training and supervision to ensure clinical competence and safe effective care.
The postholder will work as part of the multidisciplinary team and will assist and support the clinical team(s). This may include working within the patient’s home environment and other clinical settings within the community. Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating the establishment of systems and processes.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
1. Carry out a range of clinical procedures including leg ulcer, wound, and pressure ulcer care in a range of settings such as clinics, nursing homes, and patients' own homes with supervision from a trained member of staff.
2. Undertake screening processes such as blood pressure, height, weight, urinalysis, and blood glucose measurements and collect specimens for laboratory investigations.
3. Prepare and clear clinical settings.
4. Assist with assessments, reassessments, and Doppler ultrasound.
5. Undertake a range of personal care activities with patients such as removing soiled bandages and dressings, cleaning wounds, applying treatments and creams under the supervision of trained staff. This will include maintaining personal dignity and privacy when undertaking these activities.
6. Work within existing clinical guidelines, protocols, and infection control procedures.
7. Offer advice to patients and carers on a range of health issues such as avoidance of pressure damage, prevention of reoccurrence of leg ulceration, and the importance of emollient treatments in dermatology conditions.
8. Communicate factual and sensitive information to patients and carers from diverse backgrounds and/or with a variety of sensory deficits, ensuring strategies to overcome barriers to communication and understanding.
9. Offer a level of psychological support to patients and carers in various situations and conditions such as psoriasis, eczema, leg, and pressure ulcers.
10. Ensure contemporaneous record keeping, both manual and computer-based, that supports care and delivery by a range of professionals and provides an audit trail.
11. Understand the process of cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, associated emergency procedures, and appropriate contacts in changing and complex situations. All procedures will be undertaken after theoretical underpinning and regular updating is demonstrated.
12. Be accountable for own clinical practice.
13. Show analytic skills through interpretation of test results using policies/SOP and flow charts.
14. Skills and competencies in leg ulcer management.
15. Be an advocate for patients while conducting well leg clinics and also when supporting the specialist nurses.
16. Educate patients in well leg clinics to self-care in managing their hosiery and skin conditions.
17. Enable individuals to develop necessary skills in health promotion, the ability to discuss and explain information leaflets provided, identifying the risks and educating the patient.
18. Collaborative working, discussing patient issues within safety huddles, to ensure that appropriate decisions have been made.
19. Recognise the different health needs for individual patients' assessments across localities.
20. Liaise with GPs and other health professionals.
21. Apply compression bandaging under supervision from a trained nurse.
22. Work on audits required by the organisation. Data inputting of patient information, using spreadsheets for archiving within the trust guidelines.
23. Undertake relevant mandatory training that is complete and up to date.
24. Assist with the entry of information on the database.
25. Photocopy information as requested.
26. Assist nurses in organising their caseload through discharge of patients.
27. Offer support to nurses and students from a variety of disciplines.
28. Undertake teaching with patients and carers to improve concordance.
Health and Safety: All staff will be expected to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing, safety and security, and assist in maintaining a healthy, safe, and secure working environment for everyone. They must not intentionally misuse or interfere with anything provided in the interests of health and safety, e.g., misuse of equipment. It is a legal requirement that all employees attend training provided by the employer and report to their manager without delay any accidents, incidents, and defects in equipment, place of work, or system of work which might endanger safety, health, or security of which they become aware.
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