Health Care Assistant- Surrey Downs H&C

Job summary

Surrey Downs Health & Care

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an HCA to join our friendly and supportive team at Dorking Community Hospital.We offer flexible working, attractive salaries as well as clinical and career development opportunities.We pride ourselves on our dynamic and innovative way of working, encouraging all the ability to shape our service for the future

Dorking has free parking on-site

Contact us if you want:

o To be an integral member of a dedicated team

o To join a forward thinking, innovative organisation which puts its patients first

o To contribute to the provision of high quality care within your local community.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver care in line with the Care Certificate standards and support junior staff in achieving competency. Provide compassionate, patient-centred care, maintaining privacy, dignity, confidentiality, and a safe environment at all times.
• Assist registered nurses with delegated clinical and personal care duties including toileting, hygiene, mouth and eye care, nutrition support, feeding assistance, and maintaining patients' comfort and wellbeing. Safely support moving and handling using approved techniques and equipment in accordance with Trust policy and risk assessments.
• Undertake and accurately record patient observations such as temperature, pulse, blood pressure, respirations, urinalysis, fluid balance, height and weight, promptly reporting abnormalities to a registered nurse.
• Perform delegated clinical tasks following training and competency sign-off, including ECGs, venepuncture, blood glucose monitoring, MRSA screening, catheter removal, peripheral cannula removal (as per policy), specimen collection and transport, allergy recording on EPR, and enhanced patient observation.
• Support patients during procedures, escort stable patients as required, and provide therapeutic engagement under enhanced care guidelines. Communicate effectively with patients, relatives, and the multidisciplinary team to ensure holistic, harm-free care.

About us

Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people's own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.

Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:

• The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
• Epsom and St Helier's University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Surrey Council County

Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.

It's on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed - we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.

In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.