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Paediatric Healthcare Assistant - Healthcare

Employer
One Healthcare
Location
Hatfield
Salary
Negotiable dependant on experience
Closing date
30 Sep 2020

Job Details

Description of the role:

One Hatfield Hospital, Hertfordshire is looking for a high level Paediatric Healthcare Assistant. The role is part time, 20 hours per week. Experience in paediatrics is essential.

To assist the qualified paediatric nurses to care for children across all areas of the hospital including pre-assessment, day surgery and outpatients in line with national guidelines, hospital policies and best practice standards.

To oversee, along with the Lead Paediatric Nurse, play and distraction for children in hospital and support children in this capacity when undergoing surgery.

This role will also include some administrative duties.

Competent in phlebotomy for children and young people.

Work with the paediatric team to develop the service and enhance the care we provide to Children and Young People.

Roles and Responsibilities include:

Support paediatric nurses in the implementation of an agreed plan of care with the patient

Help promote and maintain a caring, supportive family centred environment focused on meeting the needs of the patient/relatives/carer, working collaboratively with other departments to achieve this

Look after the physical comfort of patients, for example helping them with activities of daily living.

Take basic observations such as blood pressure and temperature, height and weight, utilising the paediatric early warning score system as per hospital policy and escalate appropriately to the trained nurse

Listen and talk to patients, helping them to feel supported and safe

Assist with keeping the department clean and tidy, for example cleaning of equipment, adhering to infection prevention and control policy and hospital procedures at all times

Keep supplies and equipment in order, assisting in the maintenance of stock levels

Maintain contemporaneous patient records including patient pathways and the relevant IT reporting systems are up-to-date and accurate ensuring countersigned by a trained nurse.

Chaperone when required

Deal with any patient/relative complaints at the time if possible however escalate to appropriate member of staff if need be

Report complaints, compliments and untoward incidents via Datix as per hospital policy

Take a lead in overseeing play and distraction techniques available in the hospital setting and support children in this way when undergoing day surgery.

To assist the qualified paediatric nurses to care for children across all areas of the hospital including pre-assessment, day surgery and outpatients in line with national guidelines, hospital policies and best practice standards.

To oversee, along with the Lead Paediatric Nurse, play and distraction for children in hospital and support children in this capacity when undergoing surgery.

This role will also include some administrative duties.

Competent in phlebotomy for children and young people.

Work with the paediatric team to develop the service and enhance the care we provide to Children and Young People.

Hours

Full time or part time hours per week, across a rotational six day shift pattern including evenings. Flexibility required.

Qualifications

Minimum G.C.S.E. education or equivalent

NVQ Level 2/3 in Health & Social Care, Care Certificate or equivalent preferred

Experience

Ability to learn and develop

Experience working with children in healthcare setting

Skills

Paediatric competencies for height, weight and vital signs

Caring, patient and customer focused

Experience in computer skills using MS Office Suite

Comprehensive written and verbal communication skills

Paediatric phlebotomy

Enthusiasm for cross functional working within different departments

Desirables

Competence in the following areas: paediatric phlebotomy.

Play/ distraction therapy experience.

Benefits

We listen to what our employees want and regularly evaluate our staff benefits. As well as competitive pay and job satisfaction youll also benefit from:

5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays, pro rata for part time

Contributory pension scheme Up to 5% employer contribution access through an online pension account

Death in service payment 3x your annual salary from the 1st day of your employment

Free parking

Exclusive retails discounts at multi retailers

Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 free and confidential counselling

Private medical insurance with option to add family members

Free life assurance

Free uniform

Free eye test and voucher towards costs of eye-care

Free annual Flu jab

Training and development opportunities

Wide range of training courses available to all employees

An organisation that strives to promote our people internally

Career development and progression opportunities

Flexible working options

Staff social events

Wellbeing events

Pay enhancements for unsocial hours

Staff newsletter

Free tea and coffee

Refer a friend recruitment scheme (currently£1000)

One Hatfield Hospital reserves the right to remove job adverts before the closing date.

For more information and to apply, please click the apply button.

 

Company

One Healthcare Partners Ltd was established in July 2014 to develop and operate modern purpose-built private hospital facilities across the breadth of the UK. We opened our first hospital, One Ashford, in March 2016 and our second, One Hatfield, in December 2017. We have a number of exciting new developments that are already under way and we look forward to sharing news about these in the future.

Our objective is to provide the very best level of care, delivered by leading consultants, in modern, well equipped hospital facilities.

We understand the needs of our customers, and offer an unrivalled care package, delivered by experienced and empathetic nursing teams.

One Healthcare is part of the Fern Trading group and is advised by Octopus Healthcare, a leading UK healthcare property investor, developer and manager of healthcare properties. Octopus Healthcare is part of the Octopus Group that invests in and develops properties as well as creating partnerships to deliver innovative healthcare facilities to improve the health and wellbeing of the UK. 

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