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Job role: Healthcare Assistant
Salary: £25,263.19 to £26,651.49 per year
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: B0379-474
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About the Job:
The role entails but is not limited to providing direct patient care in accordance with the District Nurse care plan and/or as instructed by an appropriate healthcare professional. Liaising with other healthcare professionals involved in the patient’s care is therefore an integral part of this role. To work within the integrated St Giles Community team to facilitate early discharge from hospital or hospice and to prevent unnecessary hospital admission.
Key Responsibilities
• Assist patients to maintain all aspects of daily living activities in accordance with individual programmes of care, ensuring physical care is delivered with dignity and respect for the individual, always ensuring their safety.
• Ensure patient held records are completed for each visit on SystmOne, maintaining high standards of record keeping ensuring accurate, clear, and contemporaneous documentation is made as close to the event as possible.
• Ensure clinical records are factually correct and reflect precisely what was done or observed.
• Communicate any change in the patient’s general appearance and condition as appropriate to a registered nurse to contribute to care plans for patients.
• Monitor, record, and report a patient’s vital signs and other physical indicators to assess their overall health status.
Clinical Duties
Clinical duties will include (competencies in bold are required at taking up the post, training can be provided in others):
• Blood glucose testing, urinalysis, catheter care, collection of urine specimens, simple wound care, venepuncture.
• Demonstrate dexterity and coordination when undertaking treatment of patients where accuracy is important, e.g. taking blood sugars and venepuncture (this list isn’t exhaustive).
• Provide support and guidance to family and carers to enable them to gain knowledge to care for the patient and to access relevant services, as they approach end-of-life.
• Maintain excellent communication with patients, relatives and members of the MDT regarding all aspects of care demonstrating a variety of communication skills in accordance with the client group.
• Respect the person’s home as a working environment (classed as a no smoking area).
• Prioritise patient visits based on location and urgency to ensure all patients receive expected visits in a timely manner.
• Maintain IT competency to make full use of mobile phones, e-mail, the internet and on-line training.
• Access patient information via SystmOne to ensure up-to-date knowledge of the patient’s needs.
• Always protect the patient’s dignity and right to confidentiality.
• Ensure compliance with the Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act and ensure patient confidentiality.
• The post holder will have the skills to undertake or assist with patients in emergency situations by providing basic life support.
• Contribute to the reduction of healthcare acquired infection by ensuring a high standard of infection control practice in the light of research, current best evidence and legislation.
• In the absence of the Clinical Lead or deputy clinical lead, take responsibility for relevant administration and coordination of visits and deal with any issues or concerns that may occur and escalate as appropriate.
• Exercise responsibility by accessing and accepting opportunities for debrief sessions, peer support or clinical supervision.
• Supervise, where appropriate, less experienced Healthcare Assistants to maintain core competencies.
• Ensure regular communication and liaison with line manager as part of delivering an appropriate and high quality service including attendance at team meetings.
• Be aware of the health, safety and wellbeing of self, staff, patients and all others on hospice property and comply with the St Giles Hospice Health and Safety Policy.
• Attend all mandatory training and other education and training programmes to maintain competencies of relevant procedures and for self-development as required.
• Learn new skills associated with the role deemed necessary by the Clinical Lead.
• Utilise educational opportunities to facilitate learning in the clinical environment.
• Participate in education and training activities as required.
• Be aware of, and comply with all manner of St Giles Hospice policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines alongside observing a personal duty of care when using equipment or handling patients’ valuables.
• Undertake other duties as may be required, and which are consistent with the responsibilities of the post.
Important Information
We may review applications before the application review date, however, if you apply after the application review date, your application may not be considered. We will accept applications until we have successfully filled the role, this may be earlier than the closing date. If you have not heard within 14 days of the application close date, then please consider that your application has been unsuccessful at this time. As part of your application your data will be managed in line with St Giles Hospice Privacy Policy and kept for 6 months. If you would like to see this in full, please visit https://www.stgileshospice.com/privacy-policy/
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