Virtual Ward Healthcare Assistant
3 months ago
Exciting opportunity - Come join us.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to join the expanding Homeward Virtual Ward team. We are looking for Healthcare Assistants who enjoy the diversity and variety of caring for patients in crises within their own home, as well as supporting people to have the best possible quality end of life care over a 24 hour period.
This role involves providing elements of personal care, meal preparation and medication administration and support, wound care, catheter care, prompting prescribed exercises, providing prescribed equipment and completing night-sits. Good communication and collaboration as part of the Homeward nursing and therapy team is essential. You will have regular supervision and professional development opportunities.
Homeward is a short term service, we make people safe and refer them on to other appropriate services as needed. Our focus is primarily admission avoidance to secondary care, keeping people safe in their own homes, including people at the end of their life, and also supporting discharges from secondary care or in-patient units.
Norwich Place, are recruiting Band 3 Healthcare Assistants to the Homeward. Working alongside our existing HCAs, our nurses and therapists, you will assist in ensuring the continued successful delivery of this service.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Clinical
**The post holder will need**:
To work generically in provision of care, to patients under the supervision of a qualified practitioner, following a prescribed treatment/care plan in order to prevent admission to hospital.
Plan and prioritise own visits to delegated patients, and ensure these are documented in personal work diary
Ensure patient held records are completed for each visit, and that SystmOne inputting is completed on a daily basis.
Make basic judgements on patients’ response to prescribed treatment/care plans, and report findings to a qualified practitioner.
Liaise with other health care professionals as required.
Communicate with patients/carers by exchanging factual information, reassurance, tact and empathy.
Establish and maintain appropriate working relationships with colleagues, patients, carers and other health care professionals.
Demonstrate dexterity and coordination when undertaking treatment of patients where accuracy is important, e.g. taking blood sugars, venepuncture, supervising transfers, and passive exercises.
Be responsible for ensuring equipment is used safely, following relevant training, and that it is maintained appropriately.
Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of consent, and gain consent as appropriate following organisational policies.
Share responsibility of indirect patient contact tasks, such as, answering telephones, arranging appointments, processing referrals and inputting activity data.
Undertake health promotion / education as required, e.g. smoking cessation, falls etc.
Will be exposed to bodily fluids, infected material, blood products on a daily basis, therefore must utilise universal precautions and adhere to infection control policies.
Professional
**The post holder will**:
Attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary team meetings and other meetings where appropriate.
Attend in-house and competency training as required in development of current job role.
Work predominately independently on specified tasks, with regular clinical support and supervision by a qualified practitioner.
Be aware of limitations of own scope of practice and competency, and when to involve a more senior practitioner, both in daily practice and in emergency situations.
Acknowledge and recognise peoples’ expressed beliefs, preferences and choices.
To provide peer support to other assistants.
Actively contribute to team working and express ideas on improving services for users and the team.
Share responsibility for maintaining store cupboards, cleaning specialist equipment and general housekeeping tasks.
Organisational
**The post holder will**:
Undertake mandatory training as required.
Partake in the Personal Development Review process.
Follow Trust policies, and local procedures.
Be aware of Trust’s Behaviour Framework and ensure behaviours are embedded in role.
Ensure absence reporting is undertaken as determined by Team Leader and Trust policy.
Contribute to clinical audit as required.
Complete the staff survey as required.
Complete risk assessments and incident forms as required.
Take part in clinical supervision as per Trust policy.
-
Hub Allocator
3 months ago
Norwich, United Kingdom Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust Full timeVirtual Ward is coming to Norfolk Integrated Care System with its main aim of keeping patients at home during acute illness and therefore avoiding unnecessary hospital admission. This is a technological assisted approach with remote monitoring capabilities with a focus on patients with respiratory disease, frailty and heart failure. The Virtual Ward Hub...
-
Virtual Ward Triage Clinician
3 months ago
Norwich, United Kingdom Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust Full timeVirtual Ward is coming to Norfolk Integrated Care System with its main aim of keeping patients at home during acute illness and therefore avoiding unnecessary hospital admission. This is a technological assisted approach with remote monitoring capabilities with a focus on patients with respiratory disease, frailty and heart failure. The Virtual Ward Hub...
-
Nursing Associate, Virtual Ward
3 months ago
Norwich, United Kingdom Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust Full timeVirtual Ward is coming to Norfolk Integrated Care System with its main aim of keeping patients at home during acute illness and therefore avoiding unnecessary hospital admission. This is a technological assisted approach with remote monitoring capabilities with a focus on patients with respiratory disease, frailty and heart failure. This is a face to face...
-
Hub Allocator
3 months ago
Norwich, United Kingdom Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust Full timeVirtual Ward is coming to Norfolk Integrated Care System with its main aim of keeping patients at home during acute illness and therefore avoiding unnecessary hospital admission. This is a technological assisted approach with remote monitoring capabilities with a focus on patients with respiratory disease, frailty and heart failure. The Virtual Ward Hub...
-
Calleeast Advisor
3 months ago
Norwich, United Kingdom East of England Ambulance Service Trust Full timeWe are after a dynamic, fun, hardworking individuals to join our team within the CALLEEAST Call Handler & Dispatcher on our Virtual Wards Contract. CallEEAST provides a 24/7 non-emergency call handling service which includes Patient Transport Eligibility Screening, Telephone Answering Doctors Line, Message handling for Community Nursing and Midwifery...
-
Community Assistant Practitioner
3 months ago
Norwich, United Kingdom Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust Full timeAn exciting opportunity has arisen within the Virtual Ward Team to work as a Community Assistant Practitioner within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team. We require an enthusiastic and motivated assistant practitioner to join our established friendly team. The role will require a reliable and flexible individual who is able to work independently and...
-
Nursing Associate, Virtual Ward
3 months ago
Norwich, United Kingdom Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust Full timeVirtual Ward is coming to Norfolk Integrated Care System with its main aim of keeping patients at home during acute illness and therefore avoiding unnecessary hospital admission. This is a technological assisted approach with remote monitoring capabilities with a focus on patients with respiratory disease, frailty and heart failure. This is a face to face...
-
Nursing Associate
3 months ago
Norwich, United Kingdom Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust Full timeVirtual Ward is coming to Norfolk Integrated Care System with its main aim of keeping patients at home during acute illness and therefore avoiding unnecessary hospital admission. This is a technological assisted approach with remote monitoring capabilities with a focus on patients with respiratory disease, frailty and heart failure. This is a face to face...
-
Community Assistant Practitioner
4 months ago
Norwich, United Kingdom Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust Full time**As part of Virtual Ward you will be required to**: Engage with mobile working Become expert at SystmOne and other technological systems i.e Feebris. Engage with referral to discharge standard processes To be aware of the demand and capacity model which will reflect workload needs at any given time to promote increased capacity. Engage in admission...
-
Healthcare Assistant
3 months ago
Norwich, United Kingdom Spire Healthcare Full time**Spire Norwich Hospital is looking for a Healthcare Assistant to join the Wards Team.** **Working hours/Shifts - 5 out out 7 days on a rota - 7am-7:30pm, 19:00-07:30am** **Duties and responsibilities** - Assisting the Wards team in the provision of exemplary patient care - Contributing to the support and monitoring of patients - Identifying and reporting...
-
Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom University of East Anglia Full timePrimary supervisor - Prof Anne-Marie Minihane Background for this PhDEnhancing the health of coastal populations is a key health policy (Sir Chris Whitty - CMO Report Virtual Wards and/or Assistive Technology are ideal for geographically dispersed patient populations that live a significant travel time from their acute hospital. They allow for earlier...
-
Experienced Healthcare Professional
6 days ago
Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom DAYTIME HEALTHCARE RECRUITMENT LIMITED Full time**About the Role**Daytime Healthcare Recruitment Limited is partnering with a renowned private hospital group in the UK to recruit an experienced Ward Nurse to join their team in Cardiff. The hospital group is committed to providing a supportive and modern working environment, with a focus on learning and development.**Key Responsibilities**Assess and...
-
Virtual Ward Triage Clinician
1 week ago
Norwich, United Kingdom Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust Full timeJob summary Virtual Ward Norfolk Integrated Care System has main aim of keeping patients at home during acute illness and therefore avoiding unnecessary hospital admission. This is a technological assisted approach with remote monitoring capabilities with a focus on patients with respiratory disease, frailty and heart failure. The Virtual Ward Hub...
-
Norwich, United Kingdom University of East Anglia Full timePrimary supervisor - Prof Anne-Marie Minihane Background for this PhD Enhancing the health of coastal populations is a key health policy (Sir Chris Whitty - CMO Report 2023). Virtual Wards and/or Assistive Technology are ideal for geographically dispersed patient populations that live a significant travel time from their acute hospital. They allow for...
-
Bank Healthcare Assistant
3 months ago
Norwich, United Kingdom Spire Healthcare Full time**Spire Norwich Hospital has an exciting and rewarding, opportunity for a Healthcare Assistant to join their bank. This role forms an intrinsic part of our clinical team, working alongside our nursing staff in the surgical ward.** **_*Shifts - Monday to Sunday - Long day - 0700-1930 or nights 1900-0730 _** Here at Spire we maintain our commitment to...
-
Ward Nurse
5 days ago
Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom DAYTIME HEALTHCARE RECRUITMENT LIMITED Full time**About Daytime Healthcare Recruitment Limited**We are partnering with one of the best and largest private award-winning hospital groups in the UK to offer an exciting opportunity for an experienced Ward Nurse to join their team in Cardiff.**About the Role**The hospital group is renowned for offering the best workplace for learning, development, and an...
-
Ward Nurse
4 days ago
Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom DAYTIME HEALTHCARE RECRUITMENT LIMITED Full time**About Daytime Healthcare Recruitment Limited**We are partnering with one of the best and largest private award-winning hospital groups in the UK to offer an exciting opportunity for an experienced Ward Nurse to join their team in Cardiff.**About the Role**The hospital group is renowned for offering the best workplace for learning, development, and an...
-
Bank Healthcare Assistant
3 months ago
Norwich, United Kingdom Spire Healthcare Full time**Spire Norwich Hospital has an exciting opportunity to join the staffing bank as a Healthcare Assistant in the Outpatient department. The successful applicant will work in a team that provides high quality evidence-based nursing care in clinic settings to facilitate smooth and efficient clinics.** Spire Norwich Hospital holds a long-standing reputation for...
-
Registered Nurse
2 weeks ago
Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom Spire Healthcare Ltd Full timeAbout Spire Healthcare LtdSpire Healthcare Ltd is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.Our MissionAt Spire Healthcare Ltd, our mission is to provide...
-
Group Healthcare Trainer
3 months ago
Norwich, United Kingdom Healthcare Homes Full time**Group Healthcare Trainer - Remote Working** **Salary: £25,000 - £27,000 per annum** Healthcare Homes Group are recruiting for a Group Trainer to join our Learning and Development team. Working remotely you will be delivering inductions and face to face training to our new and existing colleagues across Healthcare Homes and Manorcourt. Working as part...
