Health Care Assistant
Qatar
Parttime: 0 hrs a week
Experience: Not applicable
Education Level: Professional Bachelor
Conventional Energy
Introduction
- Provide clinical support within Company Healthcare Services by performing routine,
- nursing tasks according to Company procedures and guidelines.
- Regular direct or indirect contact with Pharmacists, Physiotherapists, Laboratory staff and other allied health professionals to check on transport biological samples.
What are you going to do
- 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!
Essential skills and knowledge
- Educated to intermediate level or completed 12 years of education (essential).
- Successful completion of Health Care Assistant Portfolio/Training (essential).
- Holds a Qatar MOPH Assistant Nurse license (essential)
- BLS (Basic Life Support) (essential).
- Working knowledge of IT systems such e-mail (preferred).
- Minimum of 2 years of acute care and/or Primary Health Care experience (essential).
- All certifications to remain current and active while under Company employment.
- Proficient in English, written and verbal
- Sound communication and interpersonal skills (essential).
- Maybe required to work in all Healthcare Services locations and to work shifts
- Maybe required to drive staff, deliver documents and equipment
- H2S essential if working in Industrial Cities or Offshore (essential).
- Works within own scope of competence and professional codes of conduct, including always maintaining patient confidentiality (essential).
- Demonstrates sensitivity in working in a multi-cultural environment.
- Valid Qatari Drivers' License (preferred).
What we offer
- Salary:
- Monthly Rate in QAR (Accommodation & Transport shall be provided, Food: On-Site Coupon Shall be Provided; Offsite Food Allowance)
- Work Schedule:
- 8 Hours / 5 Days
- Duration:
- 2 Years, with possible extension
- Location:
- Qatar