Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Job summary
The Healthcare Assistant is a member of the wider nursing team and appointed to support registered nurses in the assessment, planning and delivery of care to patients.- The role of observing and engaging children and young people during their stay in the general paediatric ward or Emergency department. This is about a therapeutic intervention that aims to promote the physical and psychological well-being of the patient during the admission.
- To engage with our paediatric mental health patients in our Emergency Department and on our acute paediatric ward (Ifor) to co-create care plans, safety plans (with assistance of the Paediatric Mental Health Team-PMHT) and engage with paediatric mental health patients to stay safe and work towards their admission goals.
- To promote the physical and psychological well-being of our patients, during their admission.
- To oversee the patient’s mental state and risk during their admission.
- To support the acute paediatric ward in the daily management of environmental needs relevant to paediatric MH admissions.
- De-escalation skills and the ability to maintain professionalism and compassion in acute settings is essential in this role.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Responsibilities-
To support the registered nurse/clinician in the implementation of an agreed plan of care with the patient.
To participate in in-service training programmes as required.
To engage with patients and be prepared to initiative activities, promote appropriate structure to meet their basic emotional and physical needs.
To assist the patient to ensure they meet their dietary requirements.
To act, in collaboration with the registered nurse, as an allocated nurse to a patient.
Additional Duties:
The role will also entail supporting the PMHT more widely, across their acute pathway. This would mean participating fully in the expected role as an HCA, under the supervision of the Clinical Nurse Specialist.
Personal Responsibilities:
Accept regular supervision from a named supervisor and with that person, agree on as structured programme of supervision tailored to your work needs and those of the Acute Paediatric environment.
To undertake roles and responsibilities as outlined in the Knowledge Skills Framework
About us
We have an excellent reputation for being innovative, responsive and flexible to the changing clinical needs of the local population. We are treating more patients than ever before and arededicated to improving services to deliver the best for our patients.Our missionHelping local people live longer, healthier lives.Our visionProvide safe, personal, co-ordinated care for the community we serve.Our goalsWe have developed six key strategic goals to make sure we continue to support people to live longer, healthier lives.
- To secure the best possible health and wellbeing for all our community
- To integrate and coordinate care in person-centred teams
- To deliver consistent, high quality, safe services
- To support our patients and users in being active partners in their care
- To be recognised as a leader in the fields of medical and multi-professional education, and population-based clinical research
- To innovate and continuously improve the quality of our services to deliver the best outcomes for our local population