Health Care Assistant

Job summary

The Hounslow Enhanced Dementia Care Service is looking to recruit Health Care Assistants for new roles within the team. We are looking for colleagues who have an interest in working in a multidisciplinary team and with people living with Dementia within a community setting.

The service works with people in their own homes with the aim of preventing crisis and hospital admission through a range of approaches to enable people to live well, understand and plan for their current or future needs whilst providing input to support health and wellbeing.

You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team including Dementia Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Therapy Assistants, Social Worker and Social Care Coordinators. The service operates across 7 days between 9am and 5pm.

Main duties of the job

As a Health Care Assistant within the team you role may include, but is not limited to the following:

• Working within the scope of practice of a HCA, under the leadership of registered nurses.
• Follow plans of care prescribed by the registered nurse with individual patients and carers in their own homes.
• Perform and record clinical observations including blood pressure, temperature, respirations, pulse and calculate a NEWS score
• Undertake clinical tasks including urinalysis, blood glucose monitoring, cognitive screening, wound care, review of nutrition and hydration status and continence care
• Monitoring health and well-being in line with the service users care plan including anticipatory care and crisis planning
• Carry out risk assessments relating to changes in health and well-being
• Work with service users and carers to embed their care plans, provide education and work towards self management where possible
• To enable service users to use wider support options and resources enabling them to live well
• Administer medications after appropriate training and competencies

About us

Community healthcare is unlike any other part of the NHS. It's personalised care that helps people to retain their independence. It's the NHS at its best and the difference you make is truly tangible. Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job. It's simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services.

In 2018, we were named'Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction'by the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards. In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.

We are the top community trust in the country on the theme Quality of care for the third year. We had the highest percentage of staff who felt they are able to deliver the care they aspire to and are satisfied with the quality of care they give to patients or service users.

Infection Control

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.

Employer details

Employer name

Hounslow and Richmond Community NHS Healthcare Trust

Address

Heart of Hounslow Centre for Health

Hounslow

TW3 3LN

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Hounslow and Richmond Community NHS Healthcare Trust

Address

Heart of Hounslow Centre for Health

Hounslow

TW3 3LN

Employer's website

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

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