Overview
Full and part time hours available. Rotate between ITU and HDU, Days and nights. Acute ward experience is essential to provide assistance to trained staff within the Critical Care Unit and to support them in delivering high standards of patient care. To work unsupervised using own initiative when recording patient observations. To be responsible for a wider range of patient duties. Critical Care Experience is beneficial.
Responsibilities
* Assist patients in meeting hygiene, toilet and protection needs using own initiative under the guidance of a team leader.
* Assist patients to promote independence.
* Use hoist to lift heavy patients to transfer from bed to chair / wheelchair.
* Assist patients onto commode.
* Access patient condition, records basic observations of temperature, pulse, blood pressure and respiration rate.
* Use judgement to inform senior staff of abnormal findings.
* Assist in the care of the dying patient, including providing support to relatives.
* Provide support for relatives.
* Assist with last offices.
* Assist with patient transfer to CT scanner, MRI, and theatre.
* Assist with patient transfer with intra and inter discharges from the hospital.
* Able to prepare equipment in an emergency.
* Maintain effective communication with patients and staff.
* Able to communicate effectively to agitated and confused patients including patients with physical and mental disabilities.
* Be aware of and maintain requirements for patient confidentiality in the clinical setting.
* Prime pressure monitoring sets for arterial and central line insertion.
* Prepare non-invasive and invasive oxygen delivery systems.
* Prepare the bronchoscope for use. Clean bronchoscopes as per hospital policy when other service personnel are not available (i.e. weekends and annual leave).
* Assemble and dismantle mechanical ventilator and clean per manufacturer instruction.
* Perform safety ventilator tests prior to use.
Qualifications and experience
Acute ward experience is essential. Critical Care Experience is beneficial.
Additional information
All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as "competent and caring staff" by our patients.
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Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula with coastline and countryside surroundings. We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, employing over 6,000 staff who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint. We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m. The Wirral is easily accessible with transport links to major cities and neighbouring North Wales.
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