Ward Assistant

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust; Romford; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

London Living Wage

Job summary

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Ward Assistant to support nursing staff in the Children’s Department. You will handle non-clinical duties, maintain stock, prepare meals, record information, and help with patient experience initiatives in a welcoming ward environment.

The role involves working with the Ward Manager and multidisciplinary teams at KGH Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital Romford, contributing to infection prevention, safety and high standards

Qualifications

• Non-clinical duties to support nursing staff and multidisciplinary team.
• Maintain stock levels, ordering and rotating supplies.
• Assist with patient meals and patient experience initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Maintain appropriate stock levels and rotate supplies.
• Report and escalate equipment, estates, cleaning and catering issues.
• Prepare breakfasts and distribute meals, communicating dietary needs.

Job description

People's Assessment Unit (CYPAU), helping to maintain a clean, safe, well-organised and welcoming environment for children, young people and their families.

The post holder will undertake a range of non-clinical duties to support nursing staff and the wider multidisciplinary team, contributing to the effective running of the ward. Duties will include maintaining appropriate stock levels, ordering and rotating supplies, and reporting and escalating equipment, estates, cleaning and catering issues.

The post holder will support the provision of patient meals by preparing breakfasts and ordering and distributing lunch and dinner, ensuring dietary requirements are appropriately communicated and followed in line with local procedures.

They will assist with patient experience initiatives, including data collection, signage and displays, and help maintain a welcoming, child-friendly ward environment.

Working closely with the Ward Manager, Ward Clerk, nursing staff and multidisciplinary team, the Ward Assistant will contribute to high standards of ward presentation, patient experience, health and safety, infection prevention and overall service delivery.

Under the direction of the ward manager, to work to a daily job plan ensuring that a programme of work priorities is completed in a timely and efficient way. This may involve flexibility on occasions, when support for other wards in the children's department may be required.

To maintain accurate and legible records as required, including effective use of computer stores ordering processes where appropriate.

To report all accidents and incidents to the Nurse I Charge.

To maintain general tidiness of the work areas, supporting the nursing team in monitoring and escalating any concerns related to cleaning and catering provision as directed.

Be aware of the principles of infection and prevention control policies and practice, to adhere to good practice e.g. hand washing and keeping doors closed when barrier nursing is in progress, correct disposal of waste.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups.

• Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes.
• We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.