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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: C9277-25-1190
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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
- Developing an understanding of and demonstrating use of clinical supervision to reflect upon and modify practice
Custodial Responsibilities
- Assume personal responsibility for the security of issued keys.
- Understand and comply with prison orders, procedures, and instructions in your area of work.
- Comply with all security requirements.
- Respond to any situation or circumstance that might indicate a threat to security of the establishment or to the safety of an individual, completing Incident, Security, Injury, or other reports as appropriate.
- Report breaches of order and discipline including reporting and recording untoward incidents according to local protocol.
- Contribute to effective risk assessment and management procedures.
Communication
- Routinely communicate effectively with patients and working to overcome barriers to understanding (ie patients with physical or mental health conditions or learning disabilities)
- Develop and maintain inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working with all relevant agencies and organisations as directed.
- Develop and maintain close working partnerships with HMPS, Prison Governors and Heads of Prison Services, Forensic Services, Probation Services, Crown Prosecution Service, Police, and all other non-statutory agencies that are integral to prisoner/patient care and offender management.
- Undertake other duties agreed in conjunction with registered staff, Integrated Primary Healthcare Services
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