Senior Healthcare Support Worker, OPAU

Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Chertsey; Vor Ort; GBP 24.000 - 28.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Healthcare Support Worker (Band 3) to join the Older Persons Assessment Unit within the Urgent and Emergency division, delivering same-day emergency care in a safe environment.

The role supports patients with privacy, nutrition, mobility, and vital signs documentation, under supervision, contributing to high-quality patient care across Trust services.

Qualifikationen

• Assist patients with sanitary needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
• Assist in meeting patients' nutritional needs and ensure red trays for meal support where required.
• Record vitals and urine/blood glucose as per plan of care.

Aufgaben

• Assist in skin and pressure area care under supervision.
• Support safe patient movement and use moving/handling aids.
• Undertake venepuncture, cannulation and ECG duties under supervision after training.
• Record observations and communicate changes to the nurse in charge.
• Support therapeutic recreational activities and document intake/output.

Kenntnisse

Patient care

Documentation

Mobility assistance

Communication

Jobbeschreibung

Assist patients with the sanitary needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.

Assist in the meeting of patients' nutritional needs. Ensure that patients who require assistance at meal times have a red tray.

Where identified in the plan of care, ensure food and fluid intake and output are accurately documented on appropriate charts.

Assist in skin and pressure area care. Under the supervision of registered nurses ensure patients are helped to move position to prevent discomfort and/or pressure ulcers.

Assist patients with safe mobilisation according to their plan of care and where appropriate seek help from other members of the ward team.

Utilise appropriate moving and handling aids to reduce the risk of injury to the patient and themselves.

To undertake, venepuncture and cannulation duties under senior supervision following completion of training and evidence of competency

Accurately record ECG's on completion of training and report back to qualified nurse following interpretation by the Doctor.

Assist in supporting therapeutic recreational activities for patients as appropriate.

Assist registered staff in the taking and recording of vital signs as per the patients' plan of care, including urinalysis and blood glucose testing.

Communicate to the nurse in charge changes observed in a patient's condition.

Recognise and promote the patients rights, cultural beliefs and values.

Promote patients privacy and dignity both in the ward/department and across the Trust.

Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has a reputation for delivering high quality patient care. An exciting opportunity has arisen for committed, enthusiastic, motivated and experienced Senior Healthcare Support Worker (SHSW) to join our team. Our Older Persons Assessment Unit (OPAU) is seeking a Band 3 to join the already established team. This post will be to work within the Urgent and Emergency division providing same day emergency care to patients in an effective and safe environment.

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

This is an exciting time to join our Trust, as we work on the expansion of our theatres at Ashford Hospital and move towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures; with care delivered by dedicated, specialist teams in a modern and well-equipped environment.

We hope to use this centre to create an environment of learning and to facilitate training of the next generation of our skilled NHS workforce. Our plans are ambitious - why not, come and be a part of our journey.