Enhanced Care Assistant

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Job description

Title: Enhanced Care Support Assistant

Grade: Band 3

Annual Leave: 27 days per annum increasing to 29 days after 5 years NHS service and 33 days after 10 years NHS service

Department: Enhanced Care team, - Emergency and Integrated Medicine

Responsible to: Enhanced Care - Senior Nurse

Accountable to: Lead Nurse - Emergency and Integrate Medicine

Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, the details of the job description can also be found in the 'Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities' section.

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.

MAIN DUTIES
• Under supervision of the Nurse in Charge, provide 1:1 care or enhanced supervisory support for patients with cognitive impairment or patients under the Mental Health Act.
• Or provide care for a group of patients under the supervision of trained nurse.

• Under guidance from the multi-disciplinary team implement plans to meet the individuals psychological, spiritual, emotional and physical needs

• With support, provide special attention to identify patients unmet needs and avoid a state of ill-being or behaviour which might be perceived to be challenging

• Implement the individual falls management safety plan

• As a member of the Enhanced Care Team, assist qualified staff in delivering a caring and effective, patient focussed service in keeping with the aims, objectives and standards of the Trust across multiple wards as needed

• Effective communication is maintained within care team and between other care teams, patients, relatives and visitors

• Under guidance from qualified staff, sensitive and appropriate clinical care is delivered to meet individuals' needs, respecting personal dignity and beliefs

• Information is handled and exchanged with care, accuracy and sensitivity, maintaining patient confidentiality at all times

• Assist with the maintenance of a safe care environment and equipment with particular reference to infection control and safe working environment for patients, visitors and staff

• Work on a variety of wards across the Trust as clinical need determines