Overview
Job role: Health Care Assistant
Company name: NHS Jobs
Salary: £24,465.00 per year
Job Reference: C9409-25-0768
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About the Job
Ward 5C is a 32-bed ward located on the 5th floor on the main Whiston Hospital site. One half of the ward, 16 beds, is called the Hyper-acute Stroke Unit (HASU); this is where patients are cared for in the first 72 hours following a stroke. This half of the ward has a higher ratio of nursing and medical staff to ensure closer observation and monitoring of patients in their acute phase following a stroke.
Main duties of the job
The Health Care Support Worker (HCSW) will:
* Undertake personal care duties for patients within the care setting accessing supervision from registered healthcare practitioner. Personal care refers to delivery of personal hygiene and assisting with feeding, not requiring clinical skills.
* Record patient’s personal care information in accordance with local and trust policies.
* Work with all members of the multi-disciplinary team to deliver the Trust’s vision and values providing safe, high quality compassionate, person-centred care.
* Demonstrate ward routine to new employees in own work area, where required
About us
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our services
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
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