Healthcare Support Worker - Acute Medical Unit

Job summary

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The Acute Medical Unit (AMU) are looking for a Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker to join our positively vibrant team, that is proud to deliver valued-based care while developing our staff career progression.

This challenging fast pace unit sees a mixture of medically expected patients providing same day and rapid diagnostic with the aim of assisting and facilitating a same-day discharge.

We are looking for a flexible team player with excellent communication skills, who can work a mixture of shifts across our 7-day Rota. While this flexibility enables us to deliver a high quality of patient care, it allows you to have a healthy work-life balance. Therefore, your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay.

For an informal chat, please call our hiring manager Hayley Chamberlain.

Main duties of the job

• Follow the individual plan of care for each patient when undertaking the following:
  • Bed making
  • Assist patients with personal hygiene including care of hair, nails, oral hygiene and shaving
  • Assist with treatment and prevention of pressure areas and continence management for all patients
  • Assist patients with elimination requirements, including catheter care
  • Assist patients to rehabilitate, working with physiotherapy and occupational therapists
  • Assist patients with choosing and recording intake of meals
  • Feed patients, encouraging patients to drink and replenishing water jugs when necessary, maintain fluid balance charts as required
  • Complete nutritional assessment records and weigh patients as required
  • Monitoring and maintaining fluid balance records, food and weight charts as required for individual patients under the direction of a Registered Nurse, recording and reporting findings as required
  • Use equipment competently following training
  • Escort patients to other departments/hospitals for investigation or treatment as necessary, ensuring relevant paperwork/x-rays are available
• Following training and assessment, assist the Registered Nurse in other duties if appropriate including:
  • Simple dressings
  • Assisting with out-patient clinics
  • Routine specimens and urine testing
  • Taking and recording of temperature, pulse, blood pressure and oxygen saturation levels
  • Blood glucose monitoring
  • Venepuncture and Cannulation
  • Basic life support

About us

Why work with us- Torbay Hospital provides acute care for the local community and has several community hospitals, and is a hot-spot for those who are considering living by the sea or within half an hour of Dartmoor National Park and an hour to Exmoor National Park. Meanwhile, Plymouth and Exeter are also both within a short drive to enjoy the culture, maritime history and shopping experiences.

We work in an integrated way with allied health care professionals within the locality, and are a motivated and caring team to both patients and colleagues.

Listed are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:

• NHS Pension Scheme
• Childcare at our day nursery
• Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full time workers) plus bank/public holidays
• Staff Discounts
• Career development and training opportunities
• Employee Support - Staff have access to a 24-hour helpline

Our people are caring, committed, inclusive and centred on quality. We focus on solutions and people's strengths. We encourage outside the box thinking and embrace innovation and change wherever it can drive improvement.

If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to our Torbay and South Devon team.