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Job role: Healthcare Assistant
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Salary: £24,465.00 to £26,598.00 per year
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: C9430-25-0583
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About the Job:
Main duties and responsibilities:
- To assist all team members as required in the direct delivery of patient care for surgical patients across the elective and emergency footprint.
- To have knowledge of basic clinical observations and an understanding of the correct escalation process, making judgements on when to report patient conditions to a senior member of staff.
- To assist, where appropriate, in the induction of new staff within the department, demonstrating duties to new starters
- To organise own daily workload, adjusting and prioritising appropriately as the ward actively dictates.
- Communicate factual information to patients regarding their condition within your clinical remit.
- Patients may have barriers to understanding such as a physical or mental disability, including dementia and so information will need to be delivered with tact, empathy, and sensitivity.
- You may need to use persuasive skills to encourage patients to engage and undertake activities of daily living.
- To ensure that patients, relatives needs are met in a courteous, helpful, and compassionate manner.
- Professional to act at all times in a professional and courteous manner.
- To ensure compliance with mandatory training.
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To apply for this job please visit findajob.dwp.gov.uk.
