NHS Jobs
Job role: Healthcare Assistant
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Salary: £26,937.00 to £28,598.00 per year
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: C9277-25-1214
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About the Job:
- Responding to the needs of patients in an honest, non-judgemental, and open manner, which respects the rights of individuals and groups
- Actively engaging with patients in the provision of holistic, needs-led care which considers the physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of individuals and groups
- Delivery of health promotion activities and programmes (including patient self-help programmes) in support of a registered healthcare professional
- Assisting patients to attain optimal physical health and assisting with physical procedures in alongside a registered healthcare professional
- Contributing appropriately to risk assessment and individualised care planning.
Clinical
To work as directed by a registered nurse, providing physical care to patients according to a written care plan. Typical duties include: –
- Carrying out ECGs
- Phlebotomy
- Basic wound care
- NEWS2 – Assess patients using NEWS2
- Blood glucose monitoring
- Taking patients weight and other measurements
- Assisting in emergency call outs and instigating emergency procedures when appropriate
- Being second checker on medication rounds
- Ordering and maintaining stock
- Ensuring treatment rooms are clean, tidy and well stocked
- Appropriate escalation to registered healthcare professionals
- Using appropriate templates in SystmOne to document contemporaneously and accurately
- Maintaining patient confidentiality and security
- Adhering to all organisational and prison policies, procedures, and guidelines
- Ensuring good working relationships with patients, carers, relatives, other professionals and prison and healthcare staff
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