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Healthcare Assistant
| Posting date: | 13 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,560.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £24560.00 - £24560.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 May 2025 |
| Location: | Torquay, TQ2 5LS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0200-25-0002 |
Summary
Key roles and responsibilities:. Play an active role in providing care to patients and their families. Contribute to the assessment, planning, and monitoring of patients, identify physical and/or psychological changes or concerns, carry out observations and monitoring of patients by taking temperatures, pulses and respirations, maintain accurate records. Provide personal care as set out in individual care plans including feeding, personal hygiene, and repositioning with safe and effective use of hoists, being mindful of infection prevention and control at all times. Liaise with registered nurses and other colleagues. Communicate effectively with patients, relatives and carers and participate in interdisciplinary team working to support patients. Work to overcome barriers to communication. Provide reassurance, including support to those who are distressed. Assist in maintaining equipment to a high standard within the manufacturers required standards of cleanliness and safety ensuring that patient areas are kept clean and tidy. Act at all times within the limits of your competence. Support Registered Nurses with care after death. Promote a culture of continuous learning and development and wellbeing. Identify your own learning and development needs and ensure your mandatory and essential training is up to date. Take part in clinical supervision, play an active part in team meetings. Help to create an environment that is continually critically questioning practice and promoting learning. Infection Prevention All Rowcroft employees are required to adhere to theInfection Prevention and Control Policies and make every effort to maintain high standards of infection control at all times to reduce the burden of Healthcare Associated Infections, including MRSA. You agree to the following: To decontaminate your hands prior to and after direct patient care or contact with the patient's surroundings; To take part in mandatory infection control training provided; To responsibly manage your own infections. Place of Work This role has been identified as an on-site worker works at a Rowcroft site for the majority of their working time. This will be fully discussed and agreed with the postholder to meet individual and business needs.