Health Care Assistant (Bank) at Bradford Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (2020-11 – Present)
- Ensuring that medical supplies and equipment are restocked.
- Collaboratively working with nurses to maintain high levels of communication to ensure patient safety.
- Ensured that patients had a safe and secure environment, reducing risk and improving quality of life.
- Accurately and promptly completing documentation of care, hospital actions, and patient activities.
- Recording general observations of patients, such as their temperature, sats, heart rate, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
- Making up beds and supporting patients with cares.
- Improved patient's daily lives through compassionate conversation and empathetic care.
- Support patient's improve their independence, building strength and confidence to enhance daily living.
Sales Assistant at Next Retail (2018-10 – 2019-10)
- Providing service with a smile, offering courteous and helpful advice to best meet the needs of the customer.
- Processed cash, cheque, card and mobile payments using POS systems.
- Welcomed customers and offered assistance choosing products, locating products and completing purchases.
- Promptly and accurately processed payments, issued receipts, and managed till operations.
- Maintained high standards of hygiene and store presentation through cleaning.
- Identified and responded to customer's needs.
Mental Health Student Nurse at Intensive Home Treatment Team (2022-10 – 2022-12)
Voluntary work for experience, 10 weeks placement.
- Assessing service users who are not presenting risk to self or others, support during crisis in their homes to prevent admission into hospital.
- Support service users transition back to community after discharge from hospital.
- Supporting service users through the out of hours service for when in crisis.
- Referring service users to appropriate multidisciplinary services that will benefit and support them in community.
- Safely discharging service users appropriately to the community mental health service teams.
Mental Health Student Nurse at Trauma Informed Personality Pathway (2022-01 – 2022-04)
12 week placement.
- Working as part of a multi-disciplinary and within a wider network as a multi-agency team on a variety of complex and complicated cases involving agencies such as Police, A&E, Probation, CMHT, Inpatient, Voluntary Care Sector Services.
- Formulating risks, dynamic risk assessment and contingency planning and care planning and trauma informed care for people with complex emotional needs.
- Assess and plan interventions using a CHIME framework for personal recovery through a trauma informed lens.
- Participating in multi-agency formulation workshops and multi-agency care planning meetings.
- Co-ordinated care for service users, planned and delivered care to support service users with presenting problems.
Mental Health Student Nurse at Specialist Mother and Baby Mental Health Service (2021-10 – 2021-12)
10 week placement.
- Triaging of referrals.
- Dealing with queries and safety of staff.
- Co-ordinate morning huddle.
- Co-ordinated care for an allocated number of women under the care of the service - reviewing care plans and risk assessments.
- Attended additional specialist training within the team to enhance knowledge and skills.
- Home visits.
Mental Health Student Nurse at Forensic Ward (2021-01 – 2021-03)
10 week placement.
- Providing mental health care and treatment to patients who are acutely distressed, risk of absconding, suicidal, challenging behaviours and need a secure environment.
- Carrying out regular observational checks in line with trust policies and guidelines.
- Attending ward rounds.
- Attending tribunal hearing.
- Escalating risk behaviours.
- Co-ordinating shifts.
- Administrating medication and depot injections.
- Using de-escalation techniques to episodes of verbal and physical aggression.
- Ensuring patient centred care is provided and the care provided is patient motivated.
Mental Health Student Nurse at Acute Ward (2021-01 – 2021-03)
10 week placement.
- Providing care to adults in an inpatient setting with a wide range of mental health disorders, supporting patients to build on own strengths, maintaining levels of independence and promoting health and wellbeing.
- Using evidence based therapeutic interactions at all times within a multidisciplinary approach.
- Accurately documenting patient notes on system one.
- Providing recovery-based model of care to patients.
- Providing holistic care, engaging with patients with recreational activities.
- Effectively prevent and manage crisis with as little impact on the service user and their care.
- Monitor the effectiveness of interventions and medications.
- Minimise disability and maximise the level of independence of the service user.
- Building a good therapeutic rapport with the service user and ensuring they are involved with their care planning.
- Maintaining safety of staff, service users and visitors at all times in line with trust and government guidelines.
