Health Care Assistant

Overview

• Direct or indirect contact with patients and their families in the process of taking and recording vital signs, sharing information and answering questions.
• Occasional contact with Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) to request patient notes and laboratory results,
• Regular contact with clinical waste contractors for disposal of clinical waste.
• Able to solve problems within own scope of practice, by recognizing and sharing information, but also able to ask for assistance to avoid any harm to self or others.
• Correctly identifies and interprets job hazards and risks and ensures appropriate action is taken.
• Focal point to daily check clinical areas, changing linen and ensuring there are adequate medical and stationary supplies.
• Escort and chaperone patients during clinical consultations and around Company Healthcare Services centre's as requested.
• Assists with the lifting of immobile patients, i.e., from bed to chair and in and out of the ambulance.
• Assist within Primary Health Care clinics and with Chronic Disease Management, i.e. record height, weight, blood pressure, blood sugar peak/flow and urinalysis.
• Responsible for ordering laundry supplies and consumables, filing receipts and preparing monthly laundry statistics.
• Maintain medical supplies by ensuring that adequate stocks are available and maintain adequate functioning of medical equipment in nursing sections.
• Responsible for unpacking medical supplies, equipment and gas cylinders and checking for any signs of damage.
• Perform administrative tasks such as photocopying reports, documents and medical records as required.
• Transport patient files around the clinic maintaining patient confidentiality.
• Transport pathological samples around the clinic and between medical facilities as required.
• Maintain accurate manual and computerized patient records.
• Prepares clinical waste for safe storage and transportation in adhering to Company infection control policies in disposing of clinical waste, sharps, and body fluids safely and appropriately.
• Uses own judgments in First Aid and emergency situations and understand when to call for help!