Health Care Assistant

Job Overview

We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Healthcare Assistant to join our team at Wexham Park Hospital on Ward 18. Ward 18 is a General Medicine ward where you will get opportunities to begin or progress a career in healthcare, providing hands-on patient care in a supportive and dynamic environment.

Main duties of the job

Carries out duties in support and under supervision of a registered nurse

To participate in patient care as a member of the unit nursing team.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Participate in the nursing care of patients under the direction and supervision of a registered nurse and raise issues of concern to a registered nurse.
• Assist the ward Housekeepers in keeping the unit environment clean and tidy.
• Assist patients with their nutritional requirements, which includes ensuring menus are completed, handing out drinks & food to patients (ensuring they can reach everything they need, and are sat in a good eating position), and where appropriate feed patients.
• Always maintain respect and confidentiality.
• Maintain clear and accurate documentation under the supervision of a registered nurse, raising issues of concern with a qualified nurse where appropriate.
• Communicate effectively and liaise with all health care staff as appropriate.
• To encourage and maintain good relationship with Medical Staff and other members of the Primary care & Social Services teams in order to provide the best care.
• To participate in quality Assurance initiatives within the unit.
• Pro-actively respond to potential complaints, to prevent formal complaints from occurring.
  
  

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Good General Education
• Good general knowledge
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Flexible
• Prepared to learn and develop
• Prepared to work in a team
• Has an interest in providing high quality health care
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good communication skills (written & verbal)
• Able to work under supervision
• Good interpersonal skills
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core 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, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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