Healthcare Support Worker - Carshalton, United Kingdom - Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

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Carshalton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Healthcare Support Worker Band - Transfer Team

Full time & Part time - 12hr Shifts / Working across both sites at Epsom & St Helier

Main responsibilities the post holder will have will be to support the Registered nurses to ensure that their patients are safe to transfer, this would include completing safe transfer checklist, record vital signs before transferring, give personal care if required to ensure patients are transferred in an acceptable manor and transfer the patient to the designated destination with assistance of the department portering teams

Hours of work will be full time 37.5hrs a week, 12hr shifts from with weekend and bank holiday working and working at both hospital sites

Working under the direct supervision and direction of a Registered Nurse the post holder will work as the discharge team working across the Emergency Floor between the Emergency Departments, Acute Medical Units and other areas across the hospital.

The post holder will take and receive handovers for patients from these areas and actively encourage patients to be transferred.

Successful applicants will be responsible for the observations, patient care, nutrition and hydration, paperwork and transfer of patients from ED or AMU to other areas of the trust

They will also work with the named nurse to ensure that patients are safely transferred by completing safe discharge checklist; property list checked and completed both in and out of the area.

Contacting the patient's relatives would also be a key role when the patient is being transferred

Welcome to Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Thank you for showing an interest in working with us at Epsom and St Helier - a family of more than 7,000 colleagues.

We work as part of the St George's, Epsom and St Helier Hospital and Health Group, with a shared leadership and increasing collaboration to develop stronger clinical and corporate services between two major providers serving Surrey and South West London.

These partnerships are at the forefront of joining together health and care for local people, and part of the national NHS ambition to provide the best care locally.

In autumn 2019, as an entire Trust, we moved up to become rated 'Good' by the CQC and we seek to continually improve.

As part of that, we have secured £500m as part of the government's Hospital Infrastructure Plan to enable us to build a brand new Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Sutton and finish the refurbishment of the existing buildings on the Epsom and St Helier hospital sites.

We are committed to making all of our work places great places to work, with the right support and culture to help you excel.

We spoke with more than 3,000 colleagues about what makes a good day at work and as a result introduced a new core value - 'Respect'.

And as a result 'Respect' is at the heart of everything we do.

The main focus of the role is to help facilitate safe discharges and transfers to and from these units to either discharge lounge, ward areas and to diagnostics if able.

The post holder will be aligned to the Acute Medical Units, with their roster management and personal development being managed by the acute medical units but they will be expected to work across both the Emergency Departments and the Acute Medical Units throughout their shift.