Healthcare Support Worker - SDEC

Job overview

The Medical Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) is an established service delivering care to suitable emergency medical patients.

The main aim of the service is to rapidly assess, diagnose and treat emergency medical patients within the same day, improving their patient journey and increasing bed capacity and patient flow within the hospital. At present we discharge up to 80% of the patients through medical SDEC, they may require further treatment , however this is achieved by patients returning the following day and therefore not requiring a hospital stay.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To work in partnership with the Registered Nurses and MDT in delivering care to patients

• Admit patients
• On-going care and observation of patients on department
• Organise and assist in the transfer of patients for diagnostics and or in patient ward moves
• Perform clinical observations, document and report to RN.
• Perform venepuncture and cannulation
• Wound care
• Perform ECG’s
• Fluid balance monitoring, documenting and reporting
• Document care using Trust approved care plansMeet the holistic needs of the patient and escalates appropriately.