Healthcare assistant - AMU

Job Overview

We are looking for a enthusiastic full time Band 3 Health care assistant. The candidates are expected to have experience for at least 1 year in a UK hospital environment dealing with the public. You need to be flexible and able to rotate to days, nights, weekends, and bank holidays. This is a great opportunity for Care Assistants to take more responsibility and role in Acute Medical Care environment at Frimley Park Hospital.

AMU is a 42 bedded busy unit looking after patients with various medical conditions, these allows a great deal of exposure to areas of cardiology, respiratory, gastro enterology, endocrine, elderly care and mental health.

Main duties of the job

You will be working with the nursing and multi disciplinary team to deliver high quality patient care to patients and relatives.

You will be supporting the nursing staff in ensuring the all the documentation is up to date. Dementia care and acute care skills are essential.

Reporting any changes in a patient's condition and making sure your area is kept safe.

Essential skills needed are venepuncture, cannulation and catheterization. Being familiar with EPIC is desirable.

The role also involves mentoring new staff members (Care Assistants).

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

• To provide professional, competent basic nursing care to patients and relatives without direct supervision.
• To competently undertake basic agreed clinical activities without direct supervision.
• To prioritise own workload and make independent minor decisions.
• To provide Health Education and Promotion to both patients and relatives.
• To provide basic wound care following training under senior supervision until evidence of competency has been demonstrated, including aseptic technique and obtaining wound swabs correctly and application of slings and tub grip.
  
  

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Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• NVQ 3 or Apprenticeship or working towards apprenticeship
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Care certificate/HCSW Induction
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• AMU experience for at least 1 year in UK Setting
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Hospital ward experience at least 1 year in UK Setting
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Venepuncture, Cannulation and Catheterisation
• Updated with Mandatory Training
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Familiar with EPIC
  
  

Special requirement

Essential criteria

• Able to work flexible shifts, night, weekends, and bank holidays as required.
• Ability to carry out assigned task effectively in a busy and changing environment
• Ability to work in with minimal supervision
  
  

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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