Senior Clinical Nursing Support Worker

This role is for weekdays in Recovery at APH, shift times are 0800-20.00hrs. Theatre / recovery experience is required as a desirable. To provide assistance to trained staff within the Recovery unit and to support them in delivering high standards of patient care. To work unsupervised using own initiative when recording patient observations. To be responsible for a wider range of patient duties.,

• Assist patients in meeting hygiene, toilet and protection needs using own initiative under the guidance of a team leader.
• Assists patients to promote independence.
• Uses hoist to lift heavy patients to transfer from bed to chair / wheelchair.
• Assists patients onto commode.
• Access patient condition, records basis observations of temperature, pulse, blood pressure and respiration rate.
• Use judgement to inform senior staff of abnormal findings.
• Assists in the care of the dying patient, including providing support to relatives.
• Provides support for relatives.
• Assists with last offices.
• Assists with patient transfer to CT scanner, MRI, and theatre.
• Assists with patient transfer with intra and inter discharges from the hospital.
• Able to prepare equipment in an emergency.
• Maintains effective communication with patients and staff.
• Able to communicate effectively to agitated and confused patients including patients with physical and mental disabilities.
• To be aware of and maintain requirements for patient confidentiality in the clinical setting.
• To prime pressure monitoring sets for arterial and central line insertion.
• To prepare non- invasive and invasive oxygen delivery systems.
• To prepare the bronchoscope for use. To clean bronchoscopes as per hospital policy when other service personnel are not available. (i.e. weekends and annual leave ).
• To assemble and dismantle mechanical ventilator and to clean as per manufacturer instruction.
• To perform safety ventilator test prior to use
  
  All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as "competent and caring staff" by our patients.
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents. We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral's only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint. We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m. The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.