Job role: Health Care Assistant
Company name: NHS jobs.
Job Location: United Kingdom
Salary: £24,071.00 to £25,674.00 per year
Job Sector: Health Care
Job reference: C9350-24-1799
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Health Care Assistant Main duties
Principle Responsibilities:
- Work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Undertake a range of patient interventions within the scope of NVQ level 3 skills for patients as delegated by team leader or other qualified clinical staff.
- Offer advice to patients and carers on a wide range of health issues to include health promotion, lifestyle advice and self-care.
- Plan and organise own work schedule once delegated from team leader.
- Undertake basic patient observations.
- Work within existing clinical guidelines, policies and infection control procedures.
- Offer advice and support to patients and families in a wide range of situations.
- Communicate factual and sensitive information within confidentiality guidelines to patients, ensuring all information is appropriately documented and reported back to the team leader.
- Demonstrate own role to new starters and students.
- Ensure safe moving and handling techniques in the delivery of patient care, this can include the safe use of equipment.
- Communicate information to multi-disciplinary team and other agencies as appropriate.
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About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
To apply for this job please visit findajob.dwp.gov.uk.