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Job role: Senior Healthcare Support Worker
Salary: £25,760 to £27,476 a year
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: 413-106526-CNS-DA-A
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About the Job:
1. Assists with the care of patients by: –
-Under the delegation of the registered nurse, undertake care delivery and record the patient interventions carried out utilizing the patient’s nursing records. These records must be countersigned by the registered nurse who delegated the duties.
-Demonstrate respect for the individual patient, ensuring religious, cultural, and social needs are considered at all times, and acknowledge their individual rights.
-Where required, assist nursing staff if they are conducting procedures or investigations.
-Assisting patients in gaining access to and in the use of appropriate toilet facilities, including catheter care and measuring and recording body waste/fluid balance accurately.
-Ensure patients’ nutritional needs are met by assisting in the preparation of patients prior to meals and beverages, giving help and assistance in feeding/drinking as necessary.
-Record intake on food charts, where in place. Support nutritional monitoring by weighing patients.
-Assist, direct, and escort patients/visitors where and when appropriate.
-Ensuring a clean and safe environment for patients and escalating any concerns.
-Fluid balance monitoring.
-Handling patients’ personal possessions, ensuring money and valuables are kept securely.
-Providing enhanced therapeutic observations of care as required.
-Carrying out cardiopulmonary resuscitation as required.
2. Complete all appropriate documentation relevant to care provided and update the patient’s named nurse/shift coordinator where required.
3. Assist patients in maintaining their personal hygiene, grooming, and dressing needs with specific concern for their religious, cultural, and personal preferences, ensuring privacy and dignity at all times.
4. Perform and record patients’ vital signs as directed—temperature, blood pressure, respiration and pulse, oxygen saturations, modified early warning scores, height & weight, and urine testing (including midstream specimen, 24-hr urine collection, etc.)—as per Trust policy, reporting results to the registered nurse on duty or, in their absence, to a medic.
5. Provide a clinical phlebotomy service demonstrating expertise according to phlebotomy guidelines and ensure that the samples and specimens are forwarded to appropriate laboratory services. Perform venous cannulation. Carry out central venous catheter bloods and central line care as per trust policy. Have a basic understanding of normal and altered blood values and escalate results as appropriate to the registered nurse or, in their absence, a medic.
6. Perform electrocardiograms (ECG) in line with Trust policy and report to the registered nurse and/or medical staff once completed.
7. Prepare individual patients and the environment to ensure effective movement and/or handling procedures. Assist patients in their mobility requirements; provide assistance to patients moving from stretchers, wheelchairs, and toilets. Assist patients to improve and maximise their mobility, utilizing equipment as directed by the multiprofessional team.
8. Assist in meal service as required in line with the trust’s hygiene and food handling policy.
9. At the delegation of the registered nurse, transfer the patient/client from one care area to another, i.e., outpatient environment to discharge lounge/ward/other department. Chaperone the patient as required, ensuring appropriate support.
10. Welcome and orient patients, visitors, and others to the unit/department and ensure that all communications result in effective customer care.
11. Assist in the correct procedure of duties relating to last offices for deceased persons. Ensure that all religious and cultural wishes and obligations are adhered to, in line with trust policies and procedures.
12. Communicate well within the team at all times. Demonstrate a pleasant and approachable manner and help create and promote a good team working relationship by being fully involved, committed, and participative to achieving full potential. Proactively help patients and carers to take an active role in care delivery. Develop personal awareness of others’ perceptions, acknowledging and changing behavior in response to any constructive feedback.
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