HCA - Rakehead

The range of duties considered appropriate for Care support workers is set out below. The word 'assist' is used to denote that after appropriate instruction the Care Support worker can assist qualified or student nurses, or health care assistants in the delivery of patient care. You may assist with duties other than those outlined below within and as appropriate to the band level of the post, and carry out unaided some duties at the discretion of a qualified member of nursing staff Carry out assigned tasks involving direct care in support of and supervised by, a Registered Nurse to relieve trained nurses of the non-nursing duties. All Trust staff and contractors working for the Trust have both a common law duty and a statutory duty of confidentiality to protect patient (and indeed any personally identifiable) information and only use it for the purposes for which it was intended. The disclosure and use of confidential patient information needs to be both lawful and ethical. Trust staff must keep up-to-date with the requirements of Information Governance and must follow Trust policies and procedures to ensure that Trust information is dealt with legally, securely, efficiently and effectively. Staff must appropriately manage the records they create or hold during the course of their employment with the Trust, making the records available for sharing in a controlled manner, subject to statutory requirements and agreed security and confidentiality policies, procedures and guidelines (e.g. Freedom of Information Act 2000, Caldicott guidelines). If you are required to make entries into health records, you must ensure these entries are legible and attributable, and that record keeping is contemporaneous. Conduct duties with regard to values underpinning the Trust's Vision:

• If its about me, involve me
• Working together in partnership
• Aspiring to excellence
• Ongoing improvement of our service
see JD and person spec The range of duties considered appropriate for Care support workers is set out below. The word 'assist' is used to denote that after appropriate instruction the Care Support worker can assist qualified or student nurses, or health care assistants in the delivery of patient care. You may assist with duties other than those outlined below within and as appropriate to the band level of the post, and carry out unaided some duties at the discretion of a qualified member of nursing staff.