Senior HCA MSDEC

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 3 Health Care Assistants in the Medical Same Day Emergency Care Department at Worcestershire Royal Hospital.

MSDEC is a fast paced, busy area with approximately 30 patients coming in and being discharged within the same working day. You will look after acutely unwell adults with the aim of reducing potential admissions. Patients are referred via their GP, Out of Hours or Pulled from the Emergency Department.

The right individual for the role will be self-motivated, competent and pro-active with an ability to manage multiple patients at once and delegate where necessary. You must be competent in ECG recording, Venepuncture and Basic Observations. You will be working under the supervision of senior staff members, but the ability to recognise deteriorating patients and escalate is essential to this role.

Main duties of the job

The Senior Health Care Assistant is a member of the ward/department team who implements prescribed care and/or undertakes some higher-level clinical activities as directed by a registered nurse. The main dimensions of the role are:

1. To support the professionally qualified staff and work under their direction to provide quality nursing care, therapy activity, treatments and procedures directly to patients.

2. To mentor, supervise and teach Health Care Assistants.

3. To lead and co-ordinate a range of clinical and non-clinical tasks and responsibilities undertaken by Health Care Assistants.

4. To support ward staff to provide a high quality service.

About us

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people
• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
• Best use of resources
• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Employer's website

https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Employer's website

https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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