As one of our Healthcare Assistants, you’ll work with members of the ward inpatients and theatre teams, providing a safe and supportive environment for all patients. You’ll be ensuring that our patients receive a high standard of care by carrying out routine patient monitoring and care duties such as; changing bedding and assisting with personal hygiene, you’ll be undertaking basic nursing care practices like catheter fitting and bag changing.
You’ll be setting up theatre’s ready for your patient’s treatment to take place and having gained knowledge of your patient by investigating the patent pathway responsibility of adding to and following that patents pathway, ensuring particulars such as; consent obtained before any treatment is carried out.
There will be elements of administration tasks to be carried out, for instance, you will be called upon to collect all patient information together for admissions and discharging or for follow-up calls. You may be required to photocopy particulars and transport patient paperwork to other departments.
As the Healthcare Assistant, you will be conscious of health, safety and hygiene aspects on a ward. Not only will you look to make sure the ward is clean, you will monitor and look for potential hazards, ensuring they are made safe or the issue is quickly bright to the attention or the department manager. In addition, you’ll assist with the management of stock and equipment, ensuring good levels and ordering when appropriate, pre-empting any shortfalls.