Healthcare Assistant - London, United Kingdom - Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Paediatric Burns Unit are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated healthcare assistant to join our team.

Mars Ward is the only Paediatric Burns Unit in London, and treats thousands of children every year.

We have six beds, including HDU level care, accepting children with up to 30% partial thickness burn injuries or up to 20% deep burn injuries.

We see many outpatients every day, attending the ward for dressing changes with opiate analgesia, or attending our nurse led dressing clinic adjacent to the ward which treats up to 25 patients per day.

The unit is run by a small, friendly team of Paediatric Nurses, working closely with the burns Consultants, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists and Play Specialist.

PLEASE NOTE ADVERT WILL BE CLOSED ONCE SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED

The HCA is responsible for the support to the Nursing team on daily basis - to ensure a safe delivery of high quality patient care, whilst working in close co-operation and collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team.

Provide high quality clinical care support to patients, in line with the Trust values and in accordance with professional regulations.

Accept delegated responsibility for specific activities/areas from the senior nurse in charge of the burns unit/and the unit coordinator.

Work in line with Trust policies, objectives, protocols and local guidelines, whilst also being aware of the importance of their role in supporting members of the team, and always adhering to the Trust values, and in accordance with NMC regulations.

Work autonomously in areas that have been deemed competent, and with others, to always deliver high standards of care to patients and their carers, autonomously and as part of a team.

Communicate in line with Trust values, to patients, carers and staff at all times.

Take every opportunity to continue to develop, practice and expand their own general and specialist nursing skills.

Maintain high standards of professional and ethical responsibility, and accountability and be aware of the medico-legal aspects of nursing, in line with professional, regulating and local guidance

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people.

Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the best performing Trusts in the country.

We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff says they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'.

We've also been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate.

We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.

Clinical
Support the nurse in charge of burns to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualized patient care through appropriate frameworks, including safe effective arrangements for dressing change preparation and instruments for each surgical case.
Assist members of the team in the coordination of the clinical activities
Support the team to use clinical standards to participate in the process of monitoring the quality of care delivered. Act to ensure that care delivery is of the highest standard, in line with Trust and CQC standards.
Support the practical knowledge and skills in the education of the junior staff or student nurse in burns.
Escalate appropriately after safe evaluation of care and initiate any action required, for example liaising with the multidisciplinary team of senior nurses, managers and surgeon.
Undertake any reasonable and relevant clinical or nonclinical functions commensurate with their banding.
Recognise and act on situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individual
Support other members of the caring team who may be responsible for implementing specific aspects of nursing care throughout each burns list.
Use of the Datix online to report accidents, incidents and losses and provide initial support for the member of staff or patient involved, in line with Trust policy.
Take on extra duties/responsibilit