Ward Support Assistant

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; Halifax; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Ward Support Assistant on the Acute Floor to help with basic patient care, nutrition, and hydration, under the supervision of qualified nurses. You will support the MDT to ensure dignity and comfort in a relaxing dining environment and assist with ward cleanliness and infection control.

You will also handle administrative tasks, answer calls, and relay messages as part of the multidisciplinary team, contributing to patient recovery

Qualifications

• Assist patients with eating and drinking according to care plans.
• Monitor and record food and fluid intake.
• Support infection control and ward cleanliness.
• Communicate with MDT and families with empathy.

Responsibilities

• Assist patients with eating and drinking, meeting individual needs.
• Work with MDT to implement nutritional care plans and document intake.
• Order special diets and liaise with catering staff for menu choices.
• Weigh and measure patients per nutritional risk assessments.
• Support admin tasks and answer telephones.

Skills

Nursing support

Nutrition care

Infection control

Administrative tasks

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our team on the Acute Floor as a ward support assistant.

Nutrition and hydration are essential for health and quality of life. Adequate food and drink can help people recover from illness, remain independent, reduce their length of stay in hospital and help to avoid re admission to hospital.

You will assist the qualified nurses and contribute to support, assist monitor and educate our patients, their families and carers with their nutrition and hydration needs. You will work closely with the multi-disciplinary team and report to the nurse in charge to ensure individual needs are met in a relaxed environment conducive to dining maintaining dignity and respect.

You will assist with cleaning and maintaining the ward environment as well as equipment ensuring that infection control policies are followed.

You will support with administration tasks as required and answer telephones, giving messages to the MDT.

Main duties of the job

• Assist patients with eating and drinking, ensuring individual needs are met.
• Work with the MDT to implement nutritional care plans.Monitor and record food, fluid, and supplement intake.
• Order special diets and liaise with catering staff regarding menu choices.Encourage and assist patients to take prescribed snacks, nourishing drinks and supplements and document as directed by the dietician.
• Weigh and measure patients as per nutritional risk assessments.
• Clean and maintain the ward environment as well as equipment ensuring that infection control policies are followed.
• Support administrative tasks and answer telephones
• Contribute to moving and handling patients following training.

CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.

Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.