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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: C9430-25-0595
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About the Job:
- To assist all team members as required in the direct delivery of patient care.
- Undertake/ assist in personal care duties for patients when required.
- Ensure privacy and dignity is maintained.
- Utilise appropriate moving and handling aids to reduce the risk of injury to the patient and themselves.
- Ensure the safe transfer of patients to Wards and Departments using trolleys and wheelchairs which require steering and manipulation.
- To have knowledge of clinical observations, glucose monitoring and urinalysis, all requiring the use of equipment or tools and require an understanding of the correct escalation process, reporting patient conditions to a senior member of staff.
- To assist in the induction of new staff within the department, demonstrating duties to new starters.
- Lead in setting an example to new starters to ensure safe and effective care.
- To organise own daily workload, adjusting and prioritising appropriately as the department 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.
- To use advanced communication skills to encourage patients to engage and undertake activities of daily living/procedures.
- To ensure that patients, relatives needs are met in a courteous, helpful, and compassionate manner.
- To ensure all visitors to the department are dealt with in a courteous and helpful manner
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