NHS Jobs
Job role: Senior Healthcare Support Worker
Salary: £27,106 to £28,850 a year Incl 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: 325-8310978-HOSP
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About the Job:
- Helping the persons to meet personal care needs, washing and dress
- Supporting the person to eat and serving their meals, actively check food and fluid input, encouraging additional food or fluids where inadequate
- Taking people in care on the ward to the toilet
- Spending time talking to the people accessing services, answering their questions as far as possible and making sure they are comfortable
- Helping person(s) to get out of bed and move around
- Supporting persons in care to change position in bed
- Escorting person in care to various appointments as scheduled to include ECT clinic
- Undertaking nursing tasks under the direction of a qualified nurse, such as recording a person’s temperature, breathing, pulse and weight, basic wound care, blood sugar
- monitoring, stoma care, catheter care, reporting variances in a patient’s condition immediately to a relevant professional, responding to medical emergencies.
- The ability to review and reflect on your own practice through regular participation in professional supervision and appraisal.
- Using equipment such as hoists to facilitate safe transfers, responding to falls risks and actual falls, following the FALLs protocol.
To apply for this job please visit beta.jobs.nhs.uk.
