Care Assistant

We are looking for motivated Healthcare Assistants with a ‘can-do’ attitude, to join our ward/department team to work with elderly patients. Whilst it is desirable for you to have previous experience working in a hospital or as a care assistant, we are also looking for individuals with no care experience who are passionate about delivering excellent standards of patient care!

To assist members of the multi-disciplinary team to maintain patient’s basic needs and ensure patient safety. To assist with a range of non-clinical duties.

Please see attached Job Description for a comprehensive list of role specific duties and responsibilities.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

• To undertake agreed clinical activities including collection of urine and faecal samples, swabs, recording of fluid intake/output, changing of stomas and urine drainage bags, catheter care, recording of pulse/temperature/blood pressure/saturations and MET scoring, and to advise the team nurse of any changes in a patient’s condition.
• To assist patients to eat and drink as required, assisting in menu selection and being aware of special diets and cultural requirements.
• To enable and assist patients to maintain their personal hygiene.
• To contribute to the safe movement of patients, using equipment to mobilise and move patients, after mobility assessment, to ensure patient comfort.
• To answer the ward telephone as required
• To assist with discharge procedures
• To maintain patient records.
• To tidy rooms and bed areas, and to clean and strip beds and remake after patient discharge, dealing with disposal of soiled linen as per policy
• To ensure ward equipment is suitably maintained and cleaned frequently.