Job Description: Health Care Assistant
Responsible To: Duty Nurse in charge
Philosophy of Care:
The Home aims to provide its residents with a secure, relaxed, and homely environment in which the care, well-being and comfort of all residents is of prime importance. We encourage independence, individual choice, consultation about services within the home and maintaining social choice e.g. the right to vote.
CORE VALUES OF CARE
PRIVACY
DIGNITY
RIGHTS
INDEPENDENCE
CHOICE
FULFILMENT
Main Responsibilities
- Support Residents through their planned programme of Patient centred care, monitoring and evaluating, reporting any changes to registered staff.
- Undertake other designated duties within capabilities and knowledge following assessment by Duty Nurse.
- Support Duty Nurse during clinical procedures
- Support and empowering Residents to reach goals
- Support and comfort a Resident and their partner, relatives and friends at times of bereavement and loss.
- Respect the rights, privacy and dignity of the individual at all times.
- Contribute to the Health and Safety of Residents and staff.
- Reinforce and actively participate in the promotion of health and prevention of illness.
- Contribute to the management of abusive or aggressive behaviour
- Contribute to the management of patient continence.
- To clearly document Patients Notes, care undertaken and report any concerns to Duty Nurse.
- A clearly defined Key Worker Role will be allocated once induction and probation period is over. This additional role is paramount in giving “holistic” care
- To help maintain stock levels and rotation of stock used in working area and report shortfalls to Duty Nurse.
- To assist with meals to include, serving, feeding and monitoring intake of Patients and Document accordingly.
- Attend meetings, study days and in-service training as required.
- Participate in an appraisal programme formulating a personal development plan identifying personal training needs, aiming to meet both professional and company objectives.
- To support less experienced staff in achieving competencies.
- Actively involve Residents in decisions about their own choice of care.
- Maintain clear channels of communication between self, team, residents and carers.
- Ability to use own judgment, resourcefulness common sense and local knowledge to respond to the needs of the resident.
All employees are required to:
During induction familiarise themselves with copies of: Health and Safety Policy, Policy and Procedures, Confidentiality, Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults, Infection Control all of which can be found at the Nurses Station.
- Make a difference to the lives of older people. Encourage them maintain independence and choice in a homely environment. Remember; enable not disable
- Show courtesy and respect to Residents, their relatives, and all visitors to the Home. Retain confidentiality of the Resident and their family, at all times.
- Greet all visitors to CHNH, in a friendly, courteous and efficient manner and promote your position, and the Home, positively in the local community.
- Maintain good working relations with all colleagues at all times. In order that the Home may maintain its positive environment, employees are required not to engage in, or permit any fellow employee to engage in, any unlawful discrimination against any persons, living in or visiting the Home. Attend, participate, and be proactive in training sessions and staff meetings as and when required.
- To be aware of their obligations in respect of the Data Protection Act 1998.
- Be aware of and at all times comply with the rules, policies, and procedures of CHNH i.e. mandatory requirements.
This job description is not an exhaustive list of duties, but is intended to give a general indication of the range of work undertaken within this new role. Work will vary in detail in the light of changing demands and priorities, and therefore the duties identified will be subject to periodic change/review, in consultation with the post holder.
This job description is subject to regular review dependent on the needs of the
service and the developmental needs of the post-holder, and should always be
revisited as part of the appraisal process.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Pay: From £12.75 per hour
Benefits:
- Company pension
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
