HEALTH CARE SUPPORT WORKER BAND 3

Job Description:


• Participates in all aspects of patient care with particular attention to personal hygiene and grooming.
• Provision of patients toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
• Support of patients in managing incontinence and promotion of continence.
• The recording of a patients fluid intake and output using fluid balance charts.
• Preparation and serving of patients meals, drinks and snacks. Assisting / feeding patients as necessary.
• The recording of patients dietary intake when indicated in the patients plan of care.
• Enable patients to maintain/improve their mobility by use of exercise and mobility appliances.
• Assist in the prevention of pressure sore development as directed by the Registered nurse in conjunction with the patients plan of care
• Carry out any movement and handling within the safe practice guidelines from your mandatory training and in relation to the patients manual handling plan.
• Obtaining specimens from patients forward or laboratory testing. Removal of cannula and catheters.
• Undertake the dressing of non-complex wounds (in accordance with identified competencies and in conjunction with the plan of care). It is paramount that patient safety in maintained at all times.