Family Care Assistant

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider seeks a Care Assistant to support the delivery of care for infants and families. You'll be trained to perform basic observations and assist with hygiene and nutrition while maintaining safety and stock levels on the neonatal unit. Join a high-performing Trust committed to staff wellbeing and patient care.

Qualifications

• Support infants with hygiene and nutrition.
• Assist with basic observations under supervision.
• Participate in family integrated care and document interactions.

Responsibilities

• Ensure medical and emergency equipment safety.
• Order supplies to maintain stock levels.
• Monitor the ward environment and report faulty equipment.

Job description

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To assist the trained staff in the delivery of care to babies and their families, ensuring the highest possible standards of care is received by infants and their families / carers while on the neonatal unit, under the supervision of registered staff.

Observations and assessment of patients

• Following a period of training, you will carry out basic observations and personal care under the supervision of a registered nurse/nurse associate.
• support infants, in collaboration with their parents and carers in providing basic hygiene needs.
• support babies in collaboration with their parents and carers in providing nutrition promote breast feeding and the use of human milk, after completing training and NGT competency undertake regular NGT feeding of infants
• promote Family integrated care, along-side any developmental care requirements infants may have.
• provide care and support of babies with stable special care needs, to promote and support successful breast feeding/expressing and able to document within infants notes , you will supervise parents/carers where safeguarding concerns have been identified, and documented observations of family interactions are required.
  
  

Responsibility

• Ensures that medical and emergency equipment is kept in a safe condition and is ready for use when required
• Be responsible for the ordering of supplies and ensuring the department is well stocked.
• Maintaining stock levels on the ward completing requisitions on line, working in collaboration with the stores department to ensure an appropriate level of stock is held
• Participates in monitoring the ward environment
• Monitors faulty equipment and reports to the appropriate department.
  
  

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Linda Queijo-Ridor Job title: Neonatal Matron Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01234792072

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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