Job Description:

Guardian Care

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:              CARE ASSISTANT NVQ 2

Accountable to:       TRAINED NURSE IN CHARGE /

                        CARE SUPERVISOR/ SENIOR CARE ASSISTANT 

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Job Description:

Guardian Care

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:                 CARE ASSISTANT

Accountable to:          TRAINED NURSE IN CHARGE /

                           CARE SUPERVISOR/ SENIOR CARE ASSISTANT

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Job Description:

Job Title:                     SENIOR CARE ASSISTANT NVQ 3

Accountable to:             TRAINED NURSE IN CHARGE /

                                   CARE SUPERVISOR 

Job Description

- To assist clients with all their activites

- To promote and maintain dignity, privacy respect and independence

- To assist and work with trained nurse in charge to implement and evaluate care plans

- To undertake some basic nursing jobs following specific training, e.g. blood pressure basic dressings

- To maintain a helpful, friendly and professional attitude to all clients, realtives and visitors

- Assist the Trained Nurse in preparing residents for examination or treatment

- Co-ordinate the ordering, storage and distribution of pads

- Ensure that bedrooms are left clean and tidy

- Delegate tasks to junior members of staff



Please take not that the above is only a basic decription of the duties expected of the position

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Job Description:

Job Title: RMN

Accountable to: SENIOR NURSE MANAGER


KEY RESULT AREAS

1. Take responsibility for a group of residents throughout their care.
2. Monitor the standard within the framework of the Company’s quality standards, clinical protocols and operational policies.
3. Ensure effective communication exists between staff, residents, carers and other members of the multi-disciplinary care team.
4. Maintain an environment for residents, carers and staff that is safe and suitable.
5. Keep professional and clinical skills up to date and maintain a personal commitment to professional development.
6. Participate in staff development programme.
7. Set and maintain a high standard of resident care by personal example and conduct.
8. Report and Liaise with other members of the ward team.
9. Ensure effective deployment of nursing staff taking appropriate action at times of staff shortage.
10. Assist Management that all new staff complete a proper induction programme.
11. Provide effective mentor-ship for those care assistants undertaking NVQ training.
12. Deal with any complaints sensitively and report these to Management.

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Job Description:

Job Title: RGN

Accountable to: SENIOR NURSE MANAGER


KEY RESULT AREAS

1. Take responsibility for a group of residents throughout their care.
2. Monitor the standard within the framework of the Company’s quality standards, clinical protocols and operational policies.
3. Ensure effective communication exists between staff, residents, carers and other members of the multi-disciplinary care team.
4. Maintain an environment for residents, carers and staff that is safe and suitable.
5. Keep professional and clinical skills up to date and maintain a personal commitment to professional development.
6. Participate in staff development programme.
7. Set and maintain a high standard of resident care by personal example and conduct.
8. Report and Liaise with other members of the ward team.
9. Ensure effective deployment of nursing staff taking appropriate action at times of staff shortage.
10. Assist Management that all new staff complete a proper induction programme.
11. Provide effective mentor-ship for those care assistants undertaking NVQ training.
12. Deal with any complaints sensitively and report these to Management.

CRITICAL CARE RESPONSIBILITES

These duties are in addition to those listed in the RGN job description:

1. Responsible in the assessment, planning, and implementing nursing intervention for patients/clients needing critical care focusing on the holistic
needs.
2. Accepts responsibilities delegated by head nurse or team leader.
3. Identify obvious patient problems, symptoms, behavioural changes and deviations from normal.
4. Document assessments, interventions and patient reactins/responses.
5. Report abnormal data/finding to Nurse In Charge and to Physicin as directed.
6. Implement nursing care plan and medical plan of care as delegated.
7. Provide specialist skills especially in managing patients with compromised
breathing with tracheotomy in situ, on continuous oxygenation and on a ventilator.
8. Provide specialist care and management of patients with compromised
Nutritional needs i.e. patients who are peg fed and patients receiving nutrition via naso-gastric tube.
9. State principles underlying nursing interventions..
10. Anticipate variables affecting patient care.
11. Evaluate consequences of nursing and medical intervention/activites.
12. Identify legal consequences of nursng actions.
13. Identify personal strengths and limitations.
14.Seek assistance, information and/or supervision relative to nursing actions for
which the RN lacks experience or knowledge, questions appropriateness of
order/intervention, or identifies unsafe patient care practices.
15.Guide care given by other personnel on the nursing health care team as
Requested.
16. Seek education opportunities to increase clinical competence.

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