Bank Community Healthcare Support Worker | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 May 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, NW6 5FA |
| Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6321796/333-BankHCA-Community |
Summary
Band 3 Health Care Support Worker work closely with people who use our Services, their families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services. Band 3 Health Care Support Workers are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:
• keeping the people who using our services as safe as possible by recognising the limits of the Health Care Assistant role and working closely with Registered Nurses
• contributing to the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence based policies and procedures when implementing care plans
• ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people when contributing to the implementation and evaluation of care plans
We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together and in partnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care.
Band 3 Health Care Assistants contribute to the team achieving its objectives by working closely with and drawing support from Registered Nurses and other health professionals.
Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 3 Health Care Support Workers to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends, family and carers and also other staff members.
As a Band 3 Health Care Support Worker we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better
We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.
We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.
We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.
Working under the supervision of Registered Nurses
• Working to the standards set out in the Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers and Adult Social care Workers in England (Skills for Health 2013)
• Safeguarding people by recognising and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse but also recognising their own limits and asking for help and escalate concerns when necessary
• Escalating safety concerns and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services
• Being open and transparent about their own practice
• Identifying areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made
• Working closely with others to improve services
• Maintaining accurate, legible, comprehensive records
• Maintaining compliance with their mandatory training requirements
This advert closes on Tuesday 21 May 2024
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