Opportunity for a Health Care Assistant at The Meadows

An opportunity has arisen for a Health Care Assistant to join The Meadows. This is a 24/7 service with 24 beds available for the care of people over the age of 65. The Meadows is a busy unit, the friendly and enthusiastic team aim to provide a holistic assessment and treatment for older adults, who have dementia or organic mental ill health (decreased function due to medical or physical disease, rather than psychiatric illness). The Meadows is based on the former West Park Hospital Site in Epsom.

Role Overview

As a healthcare assistant at The Meadows, you’ll help make better lives by ensuring that you provide a high quality, caring service that makes a positive and effective contribution to the care pathway of people admitted onto the wards in the acute phase of their illness.

Responsibilities

• Help provide physical and psychological care to service users in accordance with the specified plan of clinical care.
• Provide support to carers.
• Provide high quality, caring service that makes a positive and effective contribution to the care pathway of people admitted onto the wards in the acute phase of their illness.

Key Duties:

• To observe, report, and record changes in the clients' physical, mental health, and behaviour.
• To provide care for people who use our services as planned in Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings.
• To be aware of and work to the principles of the Mental Health Act (MHA).
• To give and receive clear messages by telephone and/or personal contact.
• To provide the necessary physical care to people who use our services to help them complete daily living activities, i.e., personal hygiene, diet and fluid intake, clothing and laundry, personal environment, elimination, maintaining rest and sleep, and activity, physical observations.
• To provide social activities, emotional support, and stability to people who use our services to ensure effective engagement while maintaining professional boundaries.
• To contribute to the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluating care.
• To create and maintain professional supportive relationships with all members of staff with other professionals and agencies to enhance recovery.
• To provide escort duties to people who use our services under the direction of the nurse in charge.
• To participate in, where required, co-facilitate in therapeutic and social engagement group work.
• To undertake prescribed physical observations as follows: blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight, and height and report results to the nurse in charge.