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Senior Healthcare Support Worker - Katharine House Hospice
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 04 Mehefin 2024 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £22,816 - £24,336 per annum pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 04 Gorffennaf 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Adderybury, OX17 3NL |
| Cwmni: | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6335416/321-SW1-6335416-B3 |
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A Vacancy at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Band 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker - Part time post available
Katharine House Hospice
Are you an experienced Healthcare Support Worker looking for opportunities to progress?
Are you keen to learn more about palliative care and develop your skills?
Do you want to work in a rewarding setting?
If the answer is yes then read on!
We are recruiting Healthcare Support Workersto join our inpatient nursing team delivering excellent palliative care in our modern hospice at the Katharine House Hospice. We’re looking for anexperiencedHealthcare Support Worker with excellent interpersonal and communication skills who is keen to learn and take on new clinical skills to work alongside our nursing teams. We are looking for an enthusiastic, committed and professional approach to the delivery of care, ensuring the best patient and family experience. Candidates should be excellent team players with the ability to use their own initiative and judgement to resolve issues. They should also have a tactful, sensitive manner, work well under pressure, with a flexible approach and a willingness to suggest ideas for improvements. Previous Healthcare Support Workers experience and successful completion of the Care Certificate (or equivalent healthcare qualification) is essential, along with an ability to demonstrate compassion and a commitment to learning new skills.
The successful candidate can look forward to working in a professional supportive environment with a team that is passionate about delivering excellent palliative care to patients and support for their families.
For further details please contact:
Ward Manager: Abbie Hessey (abbie.hessey@ouh.nhs.uk)
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Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Patient Care
• Undertake a range of delegated and specific clinical skills for patients that demonstrate an enhanced
level of competency /technical expertise documented in the plan of care (see specific clinical skills).
• Prepare patients, families/carers and the environment for clinical activities supporting and reassuring
patients and their families/carers and preparing specific equipment as necessary.
• Monitor closely patients having undergone a clinical activity ensuring their safety, comfort and well being.
• To assist all patients of all genders with their personal care needs, empowering patients, and/or
families/carers and actively encouraging participation. This may involve maintaining hygiene needs for individuals such as helping patients to wash and dress themselves and assisting with toileting needs, maintaining privacy and dignity at all times.
• To asses and monitor the patient’s skin integrity and to report and document immediately any
changes or concerns in their condition.
• To demonstrate clinical competence in order to undertake minor dressings and treatment and as
specified in the plan of care and in consultation with the registered practitioner.
• To actively encourage all patients, families/carers to share the responsibility for maintenance of their
health and to promote healthy living where appropriate and identified as part of the care plan.
• Assist patients to mobilise safely taking account of developmental/physical needs, using equipment
and techniques as prescribed and recorded in plan of care and contribute to the falls and moving and
handling risk assessment.
• Assist in the care of a patient requiring end of life care in accordance within their spiritual and cultural
needs.
• Assist as appropriate in the support of families/carers of patients receiving end of life care.
• Recognise when a patient’s condition changes and seek advice and expertise from registered
practitioners in accordance with Trust policy.
• Contribute to, understand and report identified patient risk assessments, e.g. nutritional assessment
scores, slips, trips and falls assessment, e.g. Humpty Dumpty, use of medical devices as appropriate
in line with Trust policy.
• To perform clinical observations (following appropriate assessment of competence) accurately
recording using agreed electronic National Early Warning Systems such as SEND and report and
escalate any concerns appropriately by reporting to the registered practitioner immediately.
• Participate in the initial assessment of patient needs under the direct supervision of a registered
practitioner.
• To assist patients to meet their food and fluid intake giving attention to special diets, supplements,
enteral feeding and cultural requirements and to recognise and understand the importance of
adequate nutrition and hydration. In order to avoid malnutrition ensure an age appropriate nutritional
assessment is undertaken for example, STRONG/MUST. All food, nutritional supplements and fluid
intake should be recorded accurately as required.
• Seek support for self and others following an untoward incident.
• Report and raise concerns in relation to poor practice, attitude and behaviour of any health care
professional through appropriate channels.
• Undertake patient transfer and escort duties between departments as appropriate and as per policy.
This advert closes on Tuesday 18 Jun 2024
Band 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker - Part time post available
Katharine House Hospice
Are you an experienced Healthcare Support Worker looking for opportunities to progress?
Are you keen to learn more about palliative care and develop your skills?
Do you want to work in a rewarding setting?
If the answer is yes then read on!
We are recruiting Healthcare Support Workersto join our inpatient nursing team delivering excellent palliative care in our modern hospice at the Katharine House Hospice. We’re looking for anexperiencedHealthcare Support Worker with excellent interpersonal and communication skills who is keen to learn and take on new clinical skills to work alongside our nursing teams. We are looking for an enthusiastic, committed and professional approach to the delivery of care, ensuring the best patient and family experience. Candidates should be excellent team players with the ability to use their own initiative and judgement to resolve issues. They should also have a tactful, sensitive manner, work well under pressure, with a flexible approach and a willingness to suggest ideas for improvements. Previous Healthcare Support Workers experience and successful completion of the Care Certificate (or equivalent healthcare qualification) is essential, along with an ability to demonstrate compassion and a commitment to learning new skills.
The successful candidate can look forward to working in a professional supportive environment with a team that is passionate about delivering excellent palliative care to patients and support for their families.
For further details please contact:
Ward Manager: Abbie Hessey (abbie.hessey@ouh.nhs.uk)
*
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Patient Care
• Undertake a range of delegated and specific clinical skills for patients that demonstrate an enhanced
level of competency /technical expertise documented in the plan of care (see specific clinical skills).
• Prepare patients, families/carers and the environment for clinical activities supporting and reassuring
patients and their families/carers and preparing specific equipment as necessary.
• Monitor closely patients having undergone a clinical activity ensuring their safety, comfort and well being.
• To assist all patients of all genders with their personal care needs, empowering patients, and/or
families/carers and actively encouraging participation. This may involve maintaining hygiene needs for individuals such as helping patients to wash and dress themselves and assisting with toileting needs, maintaining privacy and dignity at all times.
• To asses and monitor the patient’s skin integrity and to report and document immediately any
changes or concerns in their condition.
• To demonstrate clinical competence in order to undertake minor dressings and treatment and as
specified in the plan of care and in consultation with the registered practitioner.
• To actively encourage all patients, families/carers to share the responsibility for maintenance of their
health and to promote healthy living where appropriate and identified as part of the care plan.
• Assist patients to mobilise safely taking account of developmental/physical needs, using equipment
and techniques as prescribed and recorded in plan of care and contribute to the falls and moving and
handling risk assessment.
• Assist in the care of a patient requiring end of life care in accordance within their spiritual and cultural
needs.
• Assist as appropriate in the support of families/carers of patients receiving end of life care.
• Recognise when a patient’s condition changes and seek advice and expertise from registered
practitioners in accordance with Trust policy.
• Contribute to, understand and report identified patient risk assessments, e.g. nutritional assessment
scores, slips, trips and falls assessment, e.g. Humpty Dumpty, use of medical devices as appropriate
in line with Trust policy.
• To perform clinical observations (following appropriate assessment of competence) accurately
recording using agreed electronic National Early Warning Systems such as SEND and report and
escalate any concerns appropriately by reporting to the registered practitioner immediately.
• Participate in the initial assessment of patient needs under the direct supervision of a registered
practitioner.
• To assist patients to meet their food and fluid intake giving attention to special diets, supplements,
enteral feeding and cultural requirements and to recognise and understand the importance of
adequate nutrition and hydration. In order to avoid malnutrition ensure an age appropriate nutritional
assessment is undertaken for example, STRONG/MUST. All food, nutritional supplements and fluid
intake should be recorded accurately as required.
• Seek support for self and others following an untoward incident.
• Report and raise concerns in relation to poor practice, attitude and behaviour of any health care
professional through appropriate channels.
• Undertake patient transfer and escort duties between departments as appropriate and as per policy.
This advert closes on Tuesday 18 Jun 2024