Healthcare Assistant - Inpatient Unit
Job Description
Job summary
We are looking for a motivated and dedicated Health Care Assistant to join our team, working on our Inpatient Unit.
This role offers excellent opportunities to develop and enhance your healthcare skills and experience within palliative and end of life care.
Could this be the rewarding challenge you are looking for?
As a Mountbatten Healthcare Assistant, you will deliver high quality Specialist Palliative and End of Life care as part of the Inpatient Unit multidisciplinary team, under the direction of the designated nursing team.
22.5 hours a week to be worked flexibly in accordance with the needs of the service, to include weekends/nights and bank holidays.
Main duties of the job
About the role:
You will support the assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient centred care, ensuring a holistic approach that is sensitive and responsive to the patients' ever-changing needs,maintaining the patients comfort, dignity and privacy at all times.
The successful candidate will ensure all aspects of care are provided in accordance with Mountbattens Values and Care Standards.
About you:
You will ideally be qualified to Level 2 Health and Social Care Certificate and have previous care experience.
The role will be part of a dedicated team of professionals, who will also be able to work under their own initiative to ensure the highest standard of care.
A can-do attitude with strong communication skills will be required.
About us
At Mountbatten making our employees feel valued is as important to us as making sure that our patients are safe. We are looking for people that live our values to help us make a difference to the thousands of patients and their families who come to us for help and support every year.
Our vision at Mountbatten is of a world where all dying people and those close to them, have access to expert care of the highest quality, provided by compassionate and professional teams.
Our Values
We care about what we do. We appreciate that people are different and we are kind and compassionate to our patients and families, to our local community and to each other
We are experts in our field. We are professional at all times, aspiring to be the best that we can be in everything that we do
We are innovative and bold. We respond quickly and creatively to the changing needs of our society within the scope of our human and financial resources
We respect our community. We exist for our local population, now and into the future, and we believe that we can achieve more together by working in partnership with others
Job responsibilities
Key Tasks
To deliver high standards of direct patient care under the supervision and direction of qualified employees, ensuring all changes in a patients condition are reported immediately to the Senior Nurse on duty, Sister or Deputy Sister.
Ensure timely and accurate recording of care provided and patient information on SystmOne, in accordance with Mountbatten's procedures.
Work as part of the multi-disciplinary team, contributing to discussions and patient care as required, acting as an advocate for the patients wishes as required.
Ensure that patients and families spiritual, psychological and social needs are meet in accordance with their wishes.
*Please refer to the attached Job Description, which includes the Person Specification, for the full duties of this rewarding role with us here at Mountbatten*
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing personal care and support for patients within care in a hospital, hospice or community setting.
Qualifications
Essential
- Good general education.
- NVQ Level 2 in health care, or equivalent experience, or willing to work towards.
Abilities
Essential
- To work shift patterns on a rota basis including nights, weekend, bank holidays.
Skills
Essential
- Good communication skills to explain complex and sensitive information effectively.
- in both written and oral to both patients, families, carers and other professionals.
Other
Essential
- Full Driving Licence.
- Able to complete the manual handling requirements associated with this role.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Mountbatten Isle of Wight
Address
Halberry Lane
Newport
Isle of Wight
Hampshire
PO30 2ER
