Healthcare Assistant - Ward 8b

An opportunity has arisen within palliative care haematology & general medicine for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Band 2 HCA to join our team and develop their HCA skills.

You will be supported by all members of the team, including HCA's, RGN's, the Deputy Ward Manager, and the Ward Manager.

Important Note: Band 2s will not be eligible for sponsorship as these roles will not meet the required skill level (RQF 3 or A level and above), despite having their salary increase.

Main Duties of a Band 2 HCA:

• Assist the nursing staff of our care group.
• Care for patients' activities of daily living, nutrition, hydration, and continence needs.
• Promote activity and monitor pressure area care.
• Document fluid balances and pressure area care.

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.

Hospital Highlights:

• 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist patients in meeting their hygiene needs and carry out all aspects of personal care and grooming (to include emptying catheter bags).
• Provision of patients' toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
• Support patients in managing incontinence.
• Measure patients' fluid intake and output using fluid balance charts and report information to the registered nurse.
• Prepare for mealtimes by sitting patients correctly and ensuring they are provided with snacks during the night and throughout the day, assisting/feeding patients as necessary.
• Carry out any moving and handling within the safe practice guidelines from mandatory training and in relation to the patients' manual handling plan.
• Enable patients to maintain/improve their mobility by using exercise and mobility appliances as directed by individual care plans.
• Assist in the prevention of pressure sore development as directed by the registered nurse in conjunction with patients' plans of care.
• Obtain specimens from patients for ward or laboratory testing.
• Assist nurses in Last Offices.
• Initiate Basic Life Support techniques as appropriate and provide assistance to the registered nurse.