Role Summary
The Acute Medicine Support Worker will enable the department to maximise the throughput of patients and will play a key role in ensuring that the department is always ready to receive and care for patients by ensuring:
- Bed spaces are always clean and stocked
- General areas in the departments are kept clean and continuously restocked
- Patient tests and specimens are delivered and retrieved in a timely manner
- Patients move around the organisation as required
- Patient Equipment cleaning
About the Role
For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below.
More detail about the role
Transport
The post holder will be allocated to the Acute Medial Unit and will work closely with the Nurse in Charge. They will be responsible for:
- The transfer of patients to all wards
- The transfer of deceased patient transfers to the mortuary as required.
- Ensuring that there is sufficient equipment for moving patients in the department
- Ensuring equipment for moving patients is functioning and clean
- Ensuring there is an appropriate supply of O2 cylinders in the department and on trolleys/unit daily.
- Undertaking transport duties such as retrieving and delivering specimens or test request as necessary.
- To assist in the manual handling of patients at the request of the nursing staff.
Cleaning Duties
The post holder will be responsible that the department is maintains a high level of cleanliness in all areas according to Trust Guidelines for Infection Control. This will include the thorough cleaning of:
- Trolleys and beds
- Ambulance equipment such as spinal boards, vacuum splints, box splints, head blocks.
- All floors following spills
- The plaster buckets as needed.
- Other duties may also be requested such as emptying and relining clinical and household waste bags
- Cleaning and preparation of bed spaces and side room including the changing of curtains where required
- Commodes
- Sluice areas
Stock Levels
The post holder will play an important role in ensuring the department is appropriately stocked to ensure the effective delivery of patient care at all times. This will include duties such as restocking:
- Each cubicle/Bay with essential items for example, gloves/gowns, inco sheets, tissues and patient bedside TV unit earpieces.
- Blood trolleys with bottles, cannulae and alcohol hand rub. Re-fill earpieces.
- Various items around the department such as Tempa dots, syringes, needles and IV fluids.
- Dressing and plaster trolleys as well as linen skips
- Maintenance of stock levels for essential clinical equipment such as Cardiac Monitors
House keeping
The post holder will be required to be flexible in the management of his/her time and will be called upon to undertake:
- The distribution of meals/beverages to patients under the direction of the nursing staff.
- Making beds
General
- To report faults on machinery and damage, faults etc to the fabric of the building to Estates
- To respect the privacy and dignity of patients whilst carrying out duties
- To refer complaints to your line manager
- To attend and participate in meetings as required
Working Practices and Relationships
- To ensure own actions reduce risks to health and safety and to promote a health and safety culture within the workplace. Always work in compliance with rules and working practices. Report all unsafe situations, incidents and accidents as appropriate
- To observe the Trusts infection Control Policy at all times and include hand washing, barrier / terminal cleans and colour coding of cloths, mops and buckets
- To maintain effective working relationships
- To foster people’s equality, diversity and rights
- To maintain environmental hygiene and personal hygiene by wearing the correct full uniform at all times. This includes wearing the correct personal protective equipment when required
- To participate in performance review
- To undertake any mandatory training or other training required to maintain competency in the role
- To maintain complete confidentiality with regard to patient issues
Where appropriate to the grade, undertake such duties as deemed necessary as directed by your team leader or the housekeeping supervisor to ensure that patients’ needs are met
Working Pattern: 37.5 hours per week, working a variety of shift patterns including 08:00-16:00, 10:00-18:00, 15:00-23:00
Interview Date: Wednesday 14th February 2024
For further information please contact: Amanda Brooks/ Katherine McDonald/ Valerio Allegrini, Clinical Nurse Managers on 01392406119 / rduh.amumatrons@nhs.net
Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
About Us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do, click here to find out more
It has never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you will help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
Benefits
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you are starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You will benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we will help you get there.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You will have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we would love to hear from you.
