Bank Community Healthcare Assistant

Our Bank team are looking to welcome new staff into our Community hospital sites.

We are looking for staff who can cover our community sites including Crewkerne, South Petherton, West Mendip and Frome and more.

Are you looking to work for your local community hospital? We are looking for compassionate, enthusiastic and caring Healthcare Assistants, who are reliable and flexible to join our Bank team. If you have good interpersonal and organisational skills, enjoy a challenge and have a passion to deliver a high standard of patient care, then this is the opportunity for you
- This advert will close once a sufficient number of applicants have been reached.

To support and assist Registered Nurses/Midwives as a member of the nursing team and under supervision perform a broad range of activities and assigned tasks as required by the patients individualised care plans.

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.

The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone’s throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.

There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan - there is truly something for everyone

Communication & Working Relationships
- Act at all times in a respectful manner that protects and promotes patients’ dignity and modesty
- Carry out the duties of the role in a professional manner to patients, visitors and colleagues
- Communicate with relatives and patients and other team members in a sensitive and caring manner
- Participate and contribute to departmental meetings as required
- Accurately take and promptly pass on oral and written messages as appropriate

Planning & Organisation
- Assist the Registered Nurse by contributing to care planning and review and report all of the outcomes and any concerns of all basic patient care duties personally undertaken clearly and promptly to the registered Nurse and document as required

Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment & Therapy
- Assist patients to wash and dress / or wash patient in bed or bathroom as required by their care plan.
- Perform basic pressure area care as required by the patients care plan or delegated by registered Nurse
- Eating and Drinking - to assist in the preparation and serving of meals or basic food supplements. Feeding patients/ assisting them to drink and accurately recording on charts, reporting their intake to the Registered Nurse
- Help Patients to use toilet facilities by escorting patients to the toilet; assisting patients to use bedpans/commodes/bottles; empty and change catheter bags or incontinence pads according to the needs of the patients care plan and Trust policy. Record and report any problems noticed in urinary and bowel continence to the Registered Nurse.
- Assist the Registered Nurse to help patients undertake basic activities to mobilise and to regain/retain independence as outlined in the individual patient care plan
- Assist the Registered Nurse to carry out last offices, under supervision, for the deceased
- Assist the multi-professional team to prepare and support patients undergoing treatment or investigation and chaperone patients during intimate procedures as required
- Escort Patients to other wards and departments as required and as delegated by the Registered Nurse and following Trust policy.
- Assist the Registered Nurse in the admission and discharge of patients as required
- Assist the Registered Nurse in the administration of prescribed medication
- Assessment: Assist the Registered Nurse (when training and assessment has been completed) by undertaking under supervision and as delegated agreed routine basic and defined assessment activities.