Job overview
The range of duties considered appropriate for Care support workers is set out
below. The word ’assist’ is used to denote that after appropriate instruction the
Care Support worker can assist qualified or student nurses, or health care
assistants in the delivery of patient care. You may assist with duties other than
those outlined below within and as appropriate to the band level of the post, and
carry out unaided some duties at the discretion of a qualified member of nursing
staff
Main duties of the job
Carry out assigned tasks involving direct care in support of and supervised by, a Registered Nurse to relieve trained nurses of the non-nursing duties.
Working for our organisation
All Trust staff and contractors working for the Trust have both a common law duty and a statutory duty of confidentiality to protect patient (and indeed any personally identifiable) information and only use it for the purposes for which it was intended.
The disclosure and use of confidential patient information needs to be both lawful and ethical.
Trust staff must keep up-to-date with the requirements of Information Governance and must follow Trust policies and procedures to ensure that Trust information is dealt with legally, securely, efficiently and effectively. Staff must appropriately manage the records they create or hold during the course of their employment with the Trust, making the records available for sharing in a controlled manner, subject to statutory requirements and agreed security and confidentiality policies, procedures and guidelines (e.g. Freedom of Information Act 2000, Caldicott guidelines). If you are required to make entries into health records, you must ensure these entries are legible and attributable, and that record keeping is contemporaneous.
Conduct duties with regard to values underpinning the Trust’s Vision:
If its about me, involve me
Working together in partnership
Aspiring to excellence
Ongoing improvement of our service
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
see JD and person spec
The range of duties considered appropriate for Care support workers is set out below. The word ’assist’ is used to denote that after appropriate instruction the Care Support worker can assist qualified or student nurses, or health care assistants in the delivery of patient care. You may assist with duties other than those outlined below within and as appropriate to the band level of the post, and carry out unaided some duties at the discretion of a qualified member of nursing staff.
Person specification
Application
Essential criteria
* GCSE grade 4 or above in Maths or equivalent qualification
Other
Essential criteria
* Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
* Promotes quality care in the clinical setting.
* Highly motivated and can motivate others/works well in a team or individually.
* Able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service.
* Able to build and maintain good working relationships both within internal and wider community MDT
* Able to prioritise own workload and that of others as appropriate.
Desirable criteria
* Previous experience in speciality.
* Basic IT knowledge and experience with electronic patient records
* Commitment to ongoing Education/Training