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Job role: Healthcare Assistant
Salary: £25,760 to £27,476 a year
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: 287-AMED-332-26-B
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About the Job:
Under the supervision of a registered nurse, assisting the team in providing the highest possible standard of care for patients and their families/carers.
The post holder will undertake a range of tasks and duties as delegated by a registered nurse.
Clinical Responsibilities:
- Participates in all aspects of patient care with particular attention to personal hygiene and grooming.
- Provision of patients’ toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
- Support of patients in managing incontinence and promotion of continence.
- The recording of a patient’s fluid intake and output using fluid balance charts.
- Preparation and serving of patients’ meals, drinks, and snacks.
- Assisting/feeding patients as necessary.
- The recording of patients’ dietary intake when indicated in the patient’s plan of care.
- Enable patients to maintain/improve their mobility by use of exercise and mobility appliances.
- Assist in the prevention of pressure sore development as directed by the registered nurse in conjunction with the patient’s plan of care
- Carry out any movement and handling within the safe practice guidelines from your mandatory training and in relation to the patient’s manual handling plan.
- Obtaining specimens from patients for ward or laboratory testing.
- Removal of cannula and catheters. Undertake the dressing of non-complex wounds (in accordance with identified competencies and in conjunction with the plan of care)
- Naso-gastric/PEG feeding once the tube has been passed and checked by a registered professional
- Prepare and maintain environments for clinical treatments and investigations
- Prepare patients for treatment investigations or procedures, including offering support, answering questions appropriate to one’s knowledge/experience, and assisting in recovery
- Collection of blood products from the laboratory as requested
- Chaperoning and escorting patients to clinical departments within the hospital and to other hospitals for investigations.
- Assist the registered nurse in performing last offices.
- General and clinical observations of patients, reporting anything untoward to registered nursing staff, to include:
- Recording of blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and respiration rate
- Oxygen saturation monitoring
- Recording of peak flow
- Undertake blood glucose monitoring and venepuncture upon the direction of the registered nurse
- Document in the patients’ nursing records any care given, ensuring the entry is countersigned by the registered nurse responsible for the patient at the time.
- Initiate basic life support techniques as appropriate and provide assistance to the registered nurse as required in prolonged resuscitation situations.
- Contribute to the development of Essence of Care and benchmarking
- Provide a verbal handover of the patient’s care under the direct supervision of the registered nurse
- Ensure due regard is given to the customs, values, and spiritual beliefs of patients and carers.
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