Healthcare Assistant - Ward 1A Frailty

Job Title: Band 3 Healthcare Assistant
An opportunity has arisen for a Band 3 Healthcare Assistant to join us within the Department of Medicine for Older People and Stroke at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Royal Site). This is an exciting post which allows the successful candidate the opportunity to work as part of the team on Ward 1A Frailty & Geriatric Same Day Emergency Care.
Applicants are advised to read the job description fully and to provide a comprehensive personal statement.
Under the supervision of a registered nurse, the post holder will assist the Ward/Department team in providing the highest possible standard of care for patients and their families/carers. The post holder will undertake a range of tasks and duties as delegated by a registered nurse.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises:

• Aintree University Hospital
• Broadgreen Hospital
• Royal Liverpool University Hospital
  We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
  UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
  Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services, including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic, and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single-site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
  Clinical Responsibilities
• 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 patient’s 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 patient’s dietary intake when indicated in the patient’s 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 patient’s plan of care.
• Carry out any movement and handling within the safe practice guidelines from your mandatory training and in relation to the patient’s manual handling plan.
• Obtaining specimens from patients for ward or laboratory testing.
• Removal of cannulae, catheters, and nasogastric tubes.
• Undertake the dressing of non-complex wounds (in accordance with identified competencies and in conjunction with the plan of care).
• Naso-gastric/PEG feeding once the tube has been passed and checked by a registered professional.
• Prepare and maintain environments for clinical treatments and investigations.