Healthcare Assistant - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Liverpool, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Healthcare Assistant
Band 3
Permanent
Rotation on to Days and Nights to cover a 24 hour 7 day service.


This Trust is an exciting and rewarding place to work and successful applicants will be offered full support in settling into your new role.

We offer a full and comprehensive training and induction period and you will assigned to a mentor who will guide and support you through your learning and development.


Under the supervision of a registered nurse assisting the Ward / Department team in providing the highest possible standard of care for patients and their families/carer.

The post holder will undertake a range of tasks and duties as delegated by a registered nurse.


Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.


The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.


It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.


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  • Participates in all aspects of patient care with particular attention to personal hygiene and grooming.
  • Provision of patients toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
  • Support of patients in managing incontinence and promotion of continence.
  • The recording of a patient's fluid intake and output using fluid balance charts.
  • Preparation and serving of patient's meals, drinks and snacks. Assisting/feeding patients as necessary.
  • The recording of patient's dietary intake when indicated in the patient's plane of care.
  • Enable patients to maintain/improve their mobility by use of exercise and mobility appliances.
  • Assist in the prevention of pressure sore development as directed by the registered nurse in conjunction with the patient's plan of care.
  • Carry out any movement and handling within the safe practice guidelines from your mandatory training and in relation to the patient's manual handling plan.
  • Obtaining specimens from patients for ward or laboratory testing
  • Removal of cannulae, catheters and nasogastric tubes.
  • Undertake the dressing of noncomplex wounds (in accordance with identified competencies and in conjunction with the plan of care).
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