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Job Description
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- Support the team with the delivery of high quality care to all patients during their stay.
- Liaise promptly with the nurse in charge and raise any concerns with regards to a patient's well-being.
- Taking of blood specimens under the direction of the nurse in charge following completion of competencies.
- Assist on wards or clinical areas as required.
- With instruction undertake wound dressings, removal of sutures and removal of drains using ANTT.
- Assist patients with their nutritional requirements.
- Maintain clear and accurate documentation under supervision of a registered nurse, raising issues of concern with a qualified nurse where appropriate.
- Always maintain respect and confidentially.
- Communicate factual information to patients using persuasion, reassurance, tact and sensitivity.
- Overcome barriers to understanding and communication for example when dealing with clients who have hearing difficulties or whose first language is not English.
- To identify and manage challenging behaviour.
- Ensure anxieties, problems and complaints are reported promptly to the lead nurse.
- Input of information into computer using local programme.
- Giving general advice over the telephone. Clinical advice must be referred to the nurse.
- Assure hospitality, support and friendliness to patients and their visitors.
- To attend team meetings and participate in appropriate in-service training sessions.
- Communicate and liaise with other members of the multi-disciplinary team including primary care and social services.
- Ensure all care/advice given is recorded clearly and accurately in patients notes.
- Communicate factual information to patients using persuasion, reassurance, tact and sensitivity.
- Overcome barriers to understanding and communication for example when dealing with clients who have hearing difficulties or whose first language is not English.
- To identify and manage challenging behaviour.
- Ensure anxieties, problems and complaints are reported promptly to the lead nurse.
- Input of information into computer using local programme.
- Giving general advice over the telephone. Clinical advice must be referred to the nurse.
- Assure hospitality, support and friendliness to patients and their visitors.
- To attend team meetings and participate in appropriate in-service training sessions.
- Communicate and liaise with other members of the multi-disciplinary team including primary care and social services.
- Ensure all care/advice given is recorded clearly and accurately in patients notes.
- GCSE Maths and English Grade C/4 or above or equivalent
- Care Certificate
- Demonstrate organisational skills
- Appreciative of the importance of communication skills
- Basic computer knowledge
- Good command of written/spoken English
- Ability to demonstrate initiative
- Understand the importance of confidentiality
- Flexible approach
- Able to prioritise
- Decision making skills
- Demonstrate good interpersonal skills
- Previous experience as a HCA in a healthcare setting
- Willingness to undertake training to achieve clinical skills required for different specialities
- Relevant previous experience (ie working within a surgical unit or ward environment)
- GCSE Maths and English Grade C/4 or above or equivalent
- Care Certificate
- Demonstrate organisational skills
- Appreciative of the importance of communication skills
- Basic computer knowledge
- Good command of written/spoken English
- Ability to demonstrate initiative
- Understand the importance of confidentiality
- Flexible approach
- Able to prioritise
- Decision making skills
- Demonstrate good interpersonal skills
- Previous experience as a HCA in a healthcare setting
- Willingness to undertake training to achieve clinical skills required for different specialities
- Relevant previous experience (ie working within a surgical unit or ward environment)
Job summary
We are looking to recruit a Band 2 Care Assistant to join our Ward 11 Surgical Ward.
This is an exciting and rare opportunity for a dynamic, motivated team member who is looking to join the surgical team on the Wexham Hospital site.
This busy 23- bedded ward cares mainly for general surgery, ENT and Plastic patients. Patients are admitted directly from the Emergency Department and are also admitted post-operatively from the operating theatre or from the Intensive Care Unit.
The successful candidate is required to have exemplary communication and interpersonal skills, be an excellent role model to the nursing team and passionate about quality, safety, and innovation to continually improve standards.
You must have energy and enthusiasm to assist in the delivery of safe quality care to our patients.
This vacancy is linked to a Level 2 Apprenticeship. This will support you to gain relevant knowledge, skills and experience that will help you achieve your potential in this role. Working alongside the Trust's experienced staff you will be supported to gain the apprenticeship qualification and functional skills in maths and English if required.
You will not be required to undertake an apprenticeship if you have previously completed a relevant apprenticeship, NVQ or similar qualification.
For an informal visit, please contact Aisling Shaw, Surgical Matron on 07776 432002 or email aisling.shaw@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital servicesforaround 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence,WorkingTogether and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnelworkingalongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Date posted
22 March 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 2
Salary
£22,383 a year per annum, pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
151-VG034
Job locations
Wexham park hospital
Slough
SL2 4HL
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Experience
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Wexham park hospital
Slough
SL2 4HL
Employer's website
https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Wexham park hospital
Slough
SL2 4HL
Employer's website
https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.