Emergency Department Assistant

1 week ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Whittington Health NHS Trust Full time
Band 3

Contract:
Permanent.

Full-Time 37.5 hours per week.

The Whittington Emergency Department (ED) serves the diverse local community of North London in and around Archway and Highgate.

We are a busy but very friendly central London ED, seeing more than 100,000 patients in the last year and our recent CQC inspection last year praised the training and development opportunities for staff.

We provide high quality emergency care and maintain an above average performance for initial assessment, ambulance handovers and four-hour performance.


We have very strong nursing leadership and can offer support from our substantial senior team, which includes our ED Matrons who provide a clinical support rota as well as Emergency Nurse Practitioners (ENPs) and senior clinical nurse leaders who provide support on a shift-by-shift basis.

We also have a dedicated and innovative practice development nurse, devoted purely to the development of the team of nurses and ED Assistants.


You will be given the opportunity to rotate through the department including developing your skills in minor injury in our Urgent Treatment Centre with support of the ENPs, Majors where we assess the majority of ambulance patients, the fast-paced assessment area and will also gain new skills and training in mental health.


We are looking for dedicated, compassionate and dynamic healthcare assistants with acute hospital experience to join our team of Emergency Department Assistants in this fast-paced acute environment.

Emergency Department experience isn't essential, as we will provide you with a training plan to develop your skills in specialist techniques such as plastering, cannulation and wound care.

Post holders would be expected to rotate onto nights and weekends on a four-week rota basis. Flexible working will be considered as part of the trust values.

Working for your organisation should read: Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Patients are to be treated with dignity, respect and discretion whilst maintaining their confidentiality.


Support and engage with mental health patients in the Department - providing assistance to nursing team in caring for patients presented with mental health.

Participate in the completion of risk assessments and care planning.

Ensure that patients' personal hygiene requirements are met.

This will include assisting with washes, bed bathing, assisting patients to use the shower and bath, providing mouth care and cleaning dentures.

Promote continence by ensuring that patients' toilet needs are met.

This will include the giving and taking away of bedpans and urinals, emptying catheter bags and bowel and stoma care.

Patients are to be helped to use the toilet or commode and the needs met for patients with incontinence.

Take and record observations of patients' temperature, pulse, respiration, oxygen saturations and blood pressure. To monitor patients' blood sugars. Any abnormalities to be reported to the qualified nurse.

To carry out routine urine testing, record results and report any abnormalities.

To collect blood and urine specimens and label as required.

To undertake phlebotomy after training.

To cannulate patients after training and competence assessment

To perform E.C.Gs after training.

To assess pressure areas and skin integrity and report to qualified nurse of any change.

To escort patients to other departments and hospitals as necessary.

After undertaking basic life support training, summon help and assist the qualified nurse in an emergency situation. To organise own workload and establish priorities

MOVING AND HANDLING
To assist patients with nutritional needs and feeding patients if required

To carry out non-complex assessments within scope of practice and as required meet the needs of the patient.

Adhere to Trust policy on moving and handling.

Maintain the comfort of patients confined to bed by helping to reposition them as required.

Assisting patients to mobilise in liaison with Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists,

DOCUMENTATION
Complete all documentation in conjunction with qualified staff. To evaluate care given using the appropriate documentation.

All written entries on documentation must be clear, legible and si

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