We have a unique new opportunity for you to join our team as an Enhanced Care Healthcare Support Worker.
Are you an experienced Healthcare Support Worker with a passion for providing dedicated, person-centred care? This is part of an innovative project aimed at enhancing care for individuals with additional needs. Secondment opportunities are also available.
We're looking for compassionate and adaptable Healthcare Support Workers who thrive in a more focused care environment, working with a small number of patients or providing 1:1 support. Your role will involve working with teenagers, young adults, individuals with learning disabilities or autism, as well as older adults with dementia or delirium.
In this role, you will be matched with patients daily, adapting your approach to meet their specific needs and interests.
If you are patient, resourceful, and dedicated to making a difference in the lives of vulnerable individuals, we'd love to hear from you.
Patients are likely to be recent admissions, young people, and adults, where clinical staff have not fully diagnosed the cause of the patient's problems and have identified known additional needs. Their own carers may be unavailable or the patient is disturbing others overnight.
Main duties:
1. Work across Adults and Children's services.
2. Be trained in safe hold and participate in restraints where Nasogastric Feeding is required.
3. Provide physical care with the assistance of ward staff.
4. Promote a healthy waking/sleep balance so that patient(s) is (are) able to sleep overnight.
5. Encourage activities based on the 'This is Me' document, Health passport, High intensity User plan, Health, Play Specialist recommendations, or Hospital Education recommendations as applicable to age and cognition.
6. Complete the daily section of the Enhanced Care record.
7. Engage and involve the patient's next of kin, family, or familiar carers as far as it is possible and safe to do so.
About us
You will be working in a completely new team. The team manager will allocate Enhanced Care HCSWs to patients who meet the Enhanced Care criteria.
We are keen to improve patient experience, as we want patients to rest and recover from their illness or injury. The vision is that this team will work to structure a patient's day to ensure they get sufficient rest between care episodes and that their overnight sleep is maximised.
Because it can be both immensely rewarding and emotionally draining to look after patients with additional needs, you will be allocated regular clinical supervision with senior Enhanced Care team staff.
Joining a new team is always exciting but also a bit uncertain. Everyone will be new to the team, so there is considerable scope to be creative and innovative to improve the experience of the patients the team is caring for and for the other patients on each ward, who are not able to sleep because one patient in their bay is agitated.
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