Healthcare Assistant

Are you a motivated, organised individual who is passionate to deliver exceptional care to frail and elderly patients? Then this is the role for you!

Older People Unit cares for 76 patients with medical needs including those with Parkinson's disease, Dementia, and multiple co-mobilities.

We are a very friendly and welcoming team who strive to provide the best high-quality care to our patients. The team has it's own enthusiastic consultants and nurses who provide the vey best patient-centred specialised care.

If you join us you will have the opportunity to develop skills and experience in:

• Supporting the nursing staff on the ward with assessment of patients
• Performing clinical baseline observations
• Assisting in the admission and discharge planning of patients
• Working alongside members of the multidisciplinary team, including different teams i.e. physiotherapist, occupational therapist, SALT, Dietician and report any changes in patients condition
• Recording and documenting episodes of care in accordance with guidelines
• Escorting patients for investigations within and outside the trust.
• Maintaining effective communication within the team and between other teams, patients and relative

You will work with additional support from the practice development nurses, and ward manager.

We also offer the following benefits:

• Care certificate programme
• Online MAST training
• Opportunity for nursing associate course for future

We have an exciting new opportunity for Care Assistants to participate in delivery of patient centred care, maintaining compassionate and professional attitude at all times.

The role positively contributes to the managing of ward supporting registered nurses in a provision of care and support ensuring patients receive the highest quality in a safe environment.

Main duties include assisting patients with daily living and independent skills: Helping people to get organised, maintaining hygiene needs, supporting their meal-plan. The role supports patients in aiding communication and providing emotional and behavioural support whilst encouraging patients to be pro active in their care.

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 three core 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.

• Observations, monitoring and recording patients conditions by taking temperatures, pulse, respiration and weight
• Communication with patients, relatives and carers
• Assisting with clinical duties
• Personal care including infection prevention and control, food, personal hygiene and overall reassurance, comfort and safety
• Checking and ordering supplies