Health Care Assistant - Ward 5D | Mersey and West Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Health Care Assistant to join our team in 5D Whiston Hospital. 5D has 25 in-patient beds and a specialist gym area for rehabilitation and group therapy. The main aim of ward 5D is to provide specialist rehabilitation for patients with a stroke, delivered by a multi-disciplinary team of Doctors, Nurses and therapists along with support from the National Stroke Association.

• Undertake personal care duties for patients within the care setting accessing supervision from a registered healthcare practitioner. Personal care refers to delivery of personal hygiene and assisting with feeding, not requiring clinical skills.
• Record patient’s personal care information in accordance with local and trust policies.
• Work with all members of the multi-disciplinary team to deliver the Trust’s vision and values, providing safe, high quality compassionate, person-centred care.
• Demonstrate ward routine to new employees in own work area, where required.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

• Acute Care:
  Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
• Primary Care:
  Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
• Community Services:
  Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital provides rehabilitation for patients needing acute hospital beds. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
• Specialist Regional Services:
  Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital for more than 4 million people across Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

Other notes:
Duties will be delegated by the registered healthcare professional. Work within the scope of training and competence, follow Trust standards, policies and protocols, communicate with individuals and families with confidentiality and empathy, observe and respond to patient needs, and participate in team handovers. Maintain own development and participate in appraisal, and work in partnership with patients, carers/families and the wider healthcare team.

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