Wolverhampton | Secure Healthcare Solutions

Working in the care sector and offering support is a very rewarding job. For anyone that has a passionate caring quality about them. Being a healthcare professional is the most gratifying and fulfilling occupation in the UK.

Being a healthcare professional is a very rewarding opportunity, a Care assistant or nurse is the reason there is a significant difference in an individual’s life. And since healthcare professionals provide service of care to the most vulnerable members of our society, from elderly individuals to vulnerable children. A healthcare professional makes positive impacts on the lives of those who need it the most.

When working in healthcare, there are a variety of sectors and roles you can be involved in, such as the NHS, Community, Nursing Homes, Private Hospitals, Complex In-Home Care, and Live in Care. These roles vary from being involved with providing a service of care to children or adults.

Although being a care professional is a rewarding job it comes with its difficulties as you are still in charge of providing the service of care, the responsibilities can vary on a daily basis, not every day will be the same, and some of the main duties working in care may be:

Medication Administration
Personal Care
Moving and Handling
Companionship
Making sure the patient is as comfortable as can be

There may be some challenges when working in care, being a carer isn’t always all so positive, there are a number of challenges when it comes to working in care, but this is where your integrity skills come into play. Some challenges you may face when a healthcare professional:

Anger, guilt, frustration
Stress when caring for an individual
Neglecting yourself when being a carer
Working irregular hours
Socially isolated
The service user responds negatively

The important qualities of a healthcare professional:

Having respect
Showing empathy and being compassionate
Patient and caring
Reliable
Positive and supportive
Being vigilant and observant
Being able to communicate

Being a healthcare professional working in care and just talking to someone and listening to the service user or patient you are providing care to, can lighten their mood and make their day 10 times better. You can be a positive impact on their life, building relationships with them and being the person they see mostly throughout the day.

Not every day will be the same, as they may have daily routines which need to be followed, but every day won’t be the same. You’ll also get to learn about different individuals when working in care. And you’ll get the enjoyment of socializing with people.

Secure Healthcare encourages healthcare professionals should promote dignity and integrity to help encourage independent living for service users in their own homes. Promoting these qualities will make you feel valued and have a wonderful relationship with clients.

Seeing individuals you are providing care to at their most vulnerable and providing hope and reassurance and simply being there for the service user or patient, is rewarding itself, to think you are the reason the person is living a better and easier life due to your duties.

If you are interested in joining Secure Healthcare Solutions we have many care positions available varying from support work, and domiciliary care to Nurse Jobs.

Click the link below to find out what positions we have available or simply give us a call:

https://securehealthcaresolutions.co.uk/jobs/

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Being A healthcare professionals, the importance of mental health awareness is those who are working in caring roles. There are many benefits of mental health first aid such as raising awareness of mental illnesses, encouraging early intervention to aid recovery, boosting confidence when dealing with mental illnesses, and reducing the stigma around mental health issues.

There are 4 main components of Mental Health First Aid

Sense of Safety
No Judgement
Creating Connections
Reassurance

Mental health is how an individual thinks or feels. An individual can have good mental health but also mental health difficulties from time to time. This can be described as feeling burned out, stressed, or overwhelmed. There are a variety of ways an individual could describe how they feel, the various types of mental health conditions for example depression, anxiety, disorders such as eating, and many others.

Secure Healthcare Solutions believes that mental health is just as important as physical health. The duty of care towards staff under the health and safety at work act (1974). If we are experiencing low or poor mental health, it could affect our ability and productivity or our individual performance. As healthcare providers, we understand the importance of mental health as we provide service of care to children and adults who require support with mental health such as autism and Learning difficulties at a high level. A positive workplace culture can boost staff productivity and performance. A positive workplace and culture can help your field care staff and your office staff thus facilitating appropriate and safe levels of staffing.

There are a few things you could do to help support mental health:

Learn the sign and symptoms
Checking in with individuals around you
Empathy

A Mental Health First Aider is not someone who can diagnose or offers professional help, they learn and understand the signs and symptoms just to be able to offer support. Listening and showing empathy to individuals. Here are Secure Healthcare Solutions our Mental Health Support workers do the exact same thing when providing care to our Mental Health clients, this helps them succeed when they are on shift.

It is not mandatory to have a Mental Health First Aider but to have a thorough understanding of the needs of someone who suffers from Mental Health issues. The key to helping individuals who suffer from mental health issues is to understand them so you can be there to support them and be their mentor for them whether that’s if you are working with children or adults with Secure Healthcare.

If you are looking for Mental Health Support worker roles get in contact with Secure Healthcare Solutions today!

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Care workers who work with Secure Healthcare Solutions support individuals with their skills to encourage communication and interactions, whether that’s an in-home care setting, community setting nursing home, or private hospital setting, we encourage communication and interaction to make your job easier.

Caring, Supportive, Observant, Resilient, Respectful

Caring

Having a caring intuition is so important when working as a healthcare professional. You are the person who the service user will often see when they’re at their best and their worst. Compassion and care towards the individual you are providing a service of care to are important they are in your hands, and it’ll make the individual feel more comfortable.

Supportive

The service users that Secure Healthcare support goes through a difficult time, and being supportive of them ensures their dignity is uplifted. As healthcare professionals, we should remember to ask if the service user or the individual you are providing a service of care to is in need of any support.

Observant

As a healthcare professional being observant is an important quality to have. If you are supporting an individual or service user with care and respect whether it’s in a community, private hospital, NHS, Nursing home, or in-home care setting, you should be able to notice signs that need to be raised to your attention. An important factor as the right support at the right time can make a massive difference to individuals.

Resilient

Being a healthcare professional resilience is the ability to recover from difficulties, working in the care sector is not an easy job so being able to show resilience is an important quality to show to never give up. The service users and the individuals you are providing a service of care to will know that you are confident in what you are doing.

Respectful

Individuals should be given dignity and respect. When providing a service of care, it is always good to show politeness and ask for their consent or if they need any privacy. Knocking on the door when entering the room and closing curtains and doors when needing to use the shower. Especially if you are working in an in-home care setting you are in the service users’ home, best practice is to respect their living space.

As a care worker, it is inevitable that you’ll have your good days and your not-so-good days. But it’s the triumphs of the healthcare professional that helps you get through your day. But to know as a care worker you are appreciated and here at Secure Healthcare, we thank you for supporting the hard work you do.

If you are interested in looking to become a care worker here with us at Secure Healthcare, get in contact with us today!

Click the link below to see the opportunities we have or give us a call:

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Effective infection prevention and control done properly can reduce the risk of spreading between individuals, patients, and workers in the healthcare sector. Secure Healthcare Solutions provides mandatory training which covers the importance of infection control. Our complex specialist nurses can provide the training needed for you to be confident in your position.

Being in the healthcare sector, infections are at a high risk of being transmitted everywhere as you are in a face-to-face setting with a lot of individuals. Infections come primarily from human sources such as patients, service users, and clinicians. Successful infection control measures involve implementing workplace practices that control the spread of infection.

Secure Healthcare makes sure that all care staff practice infection control

Standard Precautions
Transmission-Based Precautions

Standard precautions are basic infection prevention and control strategies that apply to many people. This strategy which our complex specialist nurses and Healthcare Assistants follow are standard hand hygiene, personal protective equipment (PPE), and appropriate handling and disposal of the sharp object such as needles ETC. Secure Healthcare Solutions provide the full training needed and all PPE to all our care staff so they can carry out a safe measure of Infection control.

Transmission-based precautions are specific interventions to interrupt the mode of transmission of infectious agents. They are used to control the risk of spreading infections between patients, service users, and clients who are suspected or confirmed to be infected. Transmission-based precautions are recommended as additional work practice.

Hand Hygiene is the most common measure for preventing the spread of infections and reducing healthcare-associated infections. Secure Healthcare Solutions provides hand sanitizers to all our staff, and we place all equipment needed to prevent disease in the homes for safe practice.

Developing policies for handling medical and infectious waste can lead to consequences. The importance of waste management makes the facility or the client’s homeless infectious due to its tendency to leave germs on surfaces.

Disinfecting is also a key factor in which It reduces the risk of infection spreading, the process of wiping down surfaces, and removing germs, dirt, and organic matter from surfaces. Using chemicals to kill germs on surfaces is as important as anything when providing a service of care to a service user in the comfort of their own home especially if they have complex needs infection spreading can cause harm to the individuals’ health.

Secure Healthcare stresses to the care staff that when you are in home care settings or if the service user has 24-hour care at home under Secure Healthcare that infection control and prevention are demonstrated due to the duty of care that needs to be provided. Alcohol wipes and detergent wipes are good ways to practice disinfection of surfaces. Secure Healthcare also provides refresher courses to individuals who feel like they need to clean up on their skills and knowledge for their mandatory training.

Secure Healthcare Solutions makes sure that all infection control protocols are in practice and followed for the best jobs in the west midlands get in contact with us today.

Sepsis causes the deaths of normally 5 per hour in the UK and an exceptionally large number worldwide. Sepsis is still one of the many diseases that can kill an overall healthy adult within hours. Our specialised trained nurses here at Secure Healthcare Solutions are well trained in all aspects of care and can provide a tailored service of care to you or your loved ones.

The key symptoms are confusing such as not passing urine as normal, they have temperatures either high or low; shivering uncontrollably and having the sweats; cold/blotched legs and arms. When faced with symptoms like these, becoming worse, a set of observations should be taken promptly.

Some of these symptoms can indicate shock and organ failure due to sepsis.

There are 2 significant factors of shock that can develop when you get sepsis:

Cold Shock

Cardiac output decreases due to sepsis-included dysfunctions the heart and the cardiovascular system
Initial constriction of small blood vessels may cause falsely reassuring normal blood pressure (it’ll be known in the fast heart rate)
Dropping in blood pressure
Your skin becomes blotchy/clammy and cold
The low cardiac input and result into the patient going into cardiac arrest

Warm Shock

Skin flushes due to sepsis-included dilation (small blood vessels)
Increases heart rate which maintains the increased cardiac output
Blood pressure will normally rise
Hypotensive cardiac arrest

Young children and infants and elderly people may have a non-specific symptom of sepsis which can be hard to diagnose but are rapidly progressive, with a high risk of death. Babies and young children can often show an advance state of shock. Patients or service users with known infections such as chest infections etc or risk factors due to underlying conditions are particularly vulnerable.

Risk assessment and good basic observations are the best way to find out if the patient has sepsis or if they just have a simple infection. If the patient or service user looks seriously ill, consider sepsis, and report a review to be held with clinical team.

Health professionals should retain they key symptoms, ensure early diagnosis, effective communication, and quick and simple treatments so that patients’ chances of survival increase.

Secure Healthcare Solutions will be able to provide top quality care to you or your family members. We have complex trained nurses based around Northampton, Nottingham, Leeds, Coventry, Manchester, Worcester, Peterborough, Hereford, Northampton.

Our specialised trained nurses will be able to accommodate your in-home care whether its 24-hour support to a few hours a day. Secure Healthcare Solutions can provide it for you.

To find out how we could support you click the link below:

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Epilepsy is a serious neurological condition that can affect many people at any age at any moment in life. Epilepsy affects around 1 in every 100 people in the UK and every day 87 people are diagnosed with it.

Most children and young people with Epilepsy can still enjoy and take part in their day-to-day activities, but if their seizures are not in control fully, they will need some extra safety measures to protect them from harm. Secure Healthcare Solutions has many emergency rescue medication-trained staff who deal with epilepsy service users on a daily basis and can help you or your family!

Tips on keeping children and young people safe that have epilepsy:

Swimming- Always have a lifeguard poolside, and a responsible adult to watch over the individual who has epilepsy
Heights- Not having the individual who has epilepsy stand more than twice their standing height without having a responsible individual having close supervision
Alcohol- Drinking can have a major effect on your epilepsy and risk of seizures.
Drugs- Drugs can trigger seizures, so explaining to children and young adults that they are at high risk of having more seizures when abusing drugs

The use of guards on your heaters and radiators to stop you from falling on them directly and installing smoke detectors to let you know that your food is burning if you were to forget what you are doing in the case of your seizure, it has affected where you can lose your awareness.

Covering your furniture edges that are sharp or stick out, in case of a seizure and you have a fall will protect you from any injuries that can be caused.

Do not lock the bathroom door, in case of a seizure and you are in the bathroom, the access will be easier for the responsible individual to come in and support you in case of an emergency.

Place your saucepans on the back of the stove and not the front with the handles turned away from the edge of the cooker.

Most individuals with epilepsy can take part in sports and other leisure activities but there will be some precautions you might need to take if your seizures are not well controlled. For example, avoid doing water sports on your own such as swimming, wearing a helmet when you are riding a bike, and avoiding certain types of gym equipment, For stuff like this, you can ask the gym staff for advice.

If you are driving or hold a driving license, you must tell the DVLA if you have a seizure. Your license may be taken away if your seizures aren’t under control. When you can reapply for a license depends on the type of seizure you had. For example, for individuals who have seizures it has caused them to lose consciousness, you won’t be able to reapply until they have not had any seizures for a minimum of a year.

Epilepsy does not affect your ability to have children and there’s no reason why you won’t be able to have a healthy pregnancy. If you have epilepsy and are planning on having a baby, make sure you discuss this with your doctor first.

Secure Healthcare Solutions offers support to individuals who have epilepsy and many other complex needs. To find out more click on our link below to see what and how we can support

https://securehealthcaresolutions.co.uk/care-at-home/complex-specialist-care-service/

At Secure Healthcare Solutions we often get permanent registered nurses who contact us looking to move forward with our agency. Most of the time nurses can be a little hesitant about coming into an agency nurse role. Stepping away from the familiarity and security of a permanent position can put a lot of registered nurses off but this shouldn’t.

One of the benefits of being an agency nurse is that when you’re registered the pay rates are often better. Hourly rates are higher in comparison to permanent bank staff members. This is normally 66% more than bank staff which is considerably higher.

Secondly, bank holidays can be higher especially if you are a registered nurse like working long days making your earnings incredibly higher. But these can be on a last-minute basis. Clients often compensate agency nurses for this and the possibility for this and that a shift may be canceled. Hence why there are a lot of registered nurses tending to work with an agency such as Secure Healthcare.

Sometimes it doesn’t always go to plan. Has an agency canceled on you last minute? If you are happy working days and nights and weekends and don’t matter if you work in different locations then being a flexible agency nurse is for you!

You can work with different trusts with whoever you want if you don’t like working in one environment.

Working as an agency nurse it is known that the work-life balance is immaculate which is very important, where you can fit your family and lifestyle around your work.

As an agency nurse, you simply conduct your shift and then go home after your handover, there is less stress being put on rather than a bank staff permanent nurse.

This is due to bank nurses generally getting worked to the point of getting burnt, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. In comparison as an agency nurse, the pressure is extremely less.

As an agency registered nurse, there is no additional stress or workload that comes with being a permanent member of staff working directly for trust, which may include doing external admin tasks such as stock filling, emailing the CCG, and dealing with complaints.
Another key benefit of working as an agency nurse is that you get more flexible hours, you can work long days, short days, nights, and weekends whenever you want to work around your home lifestyle.

Working In different environments instead of one environment will let you socialize more with other people not just one set of a team. Another reason why Registered nurses tend to work with agencies instead of permanent bank staff.

What’s the next step become an agency nurse?

If you are interested in changing your career and would like some additional advice on what opportunities Secure Healthcare Solutions has to offer, Get in Contact Today!

Secure Healthcare Solutions has many positions from Registered Nurses to Mental Health Nurses!

Click the link below to find out what we have to offer or give us a call for more advice!

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As a registered nurse or as a student nurse when working it is not a job, it is a career. Secure Healthcare Solutions believes that you learn a lot more about person-centered and holistic care. While promoting the importance of communication and building relationships which is key for being in the healthcare field.

In most places and organizations, we understand that it can be overwhelming and a struggle when you partake in as many opportunities as possible and sign off as many clinical skills as possible. As a registered nurse learning and developing person-centered care is key in all aspects of your career because being a nurse is not just a job.

Being a registered nurse, spending time with patients is hard especially if you are in the NHS sector, you constantly feel like you are on a conveyor belt to where you don’t spend time with your patient or client, so this could affect the chances of you providing person-centered care. You’ll be able to learn from patients and service users when taking time with them to provide your duties of care and gain better skills just by speaking.

While an individual Is in your care, you are all they have whether you are a Nurse or a Healthcare Assistant, you are the person they communicate to, the person they cry to. This will be a learning factor and quality you can gain which help you in your career to provide person-centered care.

It is important that learn from a patient or service user whether you are in working as a nurse in the NHS field, nursing homes, private hospitals, private trusts, or a Community Complex sector. Understanding your patient or Service user allows them to play a major role in the process of their own care. Also, it aligns with patient- and person-centered care. To make it most effective, understanding the needs of the patient and service user requires more than just instructions and information, healthcare providers need to be able to assess patient needs and communicate clearly between themselves.

How to manage a positive patient experience:

Establish a positive communication encounter
Develop a personal approach
Give meaningful feedback
Setting realistic goals

How can a Nurse or Healthcare Assistant build relationships with patients or service users?

Having a stable foundation of trust between the individual and the nurse can get rid of patients’ mistrust in the healthcare system, while engaging patients in their own care and improving health outcomes. Active listening as well as verbal and nonverbal communication skills will benefit the relationship between the patient and the Nurse or healthcare assistant.

If you are interested in joining the Secure Healthcare Solutions family, we have positions in:

Birmingham
Wolverhampton
Nottingham
Leeds
Coventry
Manchester
Worcester
Peterborough
Hereford
Northampton

For more information on what we have to offer, click the link below or give us a call:

https://securehealthcaresolutions.co.uk/jobs/

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Being a nurse can be a stressful job, you are working long hours sometimes back-to-back and you have a duty of care to look after the patients who are in your care. Secure Healthcare Solutions recommends a few different tips which can benefit stress relief.

Managing your diet is a key factor in relieving stress for Nurses. Eating for good health is as important as anything, Nurses can reduce the impact of their stress on their body, and it’ll have a positive influence on their health and improve satisfaction with both work and life in general.

Getting a sufficient amount of sleep, more sleep means more productivity and concentration, getting an average of at least 7 hours of sleep has many benefits and will help nurses thrive throughout their careers. Sleeping improves your memory and helps keep you focused, being a nurse, this is an important factor. Keeping rest helps look sharp on the job, especially working in care, and having to take care of people. Secure Healthcare Solutions has nurse jobs in Nottingham, Leeds, Coventry, Manchester, Worcester, Peterborough, Hereford, and Northampton, upon registration, we advise you to not overwork, we prefer you have a rest and have a healthy mindset for your next set of shifts to make sure you are in any stress.

Stretching and exercise are other benefits for stress relief especially being a nurse, and spending the most time on your feet, stretching will be beneficial for your back your legs, and arms which carry most of the stress in your shift. Exercising improves your mood, boosts your energy, and combats health conditions and diseases. And exercising also promotes better sleep so the benefit of exercising and stretching will benefit nurses massively.

Practicing meditation is another tip Secure Healthcare Solution has for relieving tips, it allows you to focus, more, and especially being a nurse, focusing is major in your duty of care. Meditation also increased patience. So not only does meditation a good way to relieve stress but it will increase creativity and patience which will benefit you as a nurse.

Communication is another key factor for relieving stress, talking about topics that are on your head, and sharing your feelings. Communicating can take a lot of things off your chest making you feel lighter and helping you do your job easier as you won’t feel like you’ve got many things on your head. Proven to have ease when in your duty of care, especially as a nurse.

Respecting work-life balance, working 24/7 will cause strain not only on your brain but it will cause your body to shut down on you. Secure Healthcare Solutions doesn’t only work under Working Time Regulations, but we also respect and encourage that you don’t overwork yourself. We want our field staff to be comfortable and feel refreshed.

Here at Secure Healthcare Solutions, we believe in a stress-free working environment. We have full support and a 24-hour support line to help you have an easy way. We have Nurse Jobs in the following areas:

Nottingham
Leeds
Coventry
Manchester
Worcester
Peterborough
Hereford
Northampton

Secure Healthcare Solutions is a healthcare provider to Mental Health service users and Mental Health private hospitals, we have many cross-trained staff who have the ability to help you

Secure Healthcare understands that mental health is a topic that is not talked about much and we are here to help with some top tips to look after your Mental Health!

8 in 100 people suffer from mixed anxiety and depression
6 in 100 people suffer from generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
4 in 100 people suffer from Post-Traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
3 in 100 people suffer from depression
2 in 100 people suffer from a phobia
1 in 100 people suffer from Obsessive- Compulsive disorder (OCD)
1 in 6 Children aged 5-16 is likely to have a mental health problem
12.8% of young people ages 5-19 meet clinical criteria for a mental health disorder

If there are times you think that you are feeling negative due to your mental health being at a low point, have a break!

Have short breaks from the news
Turn off notifications on your phone
Mute your social media accounts
Limit your news intake

After you’ve had a break for your mental health, question yourself, “How do I feel now” If you find that the break had helped you, continue to do this in portions of your time!

Looking after your mental health is a key factor to keep a healthy body as well!

Secure Healthcare Solutions recommends that having a healthy sleep routine, movement into your day keeping active, eating healthy foods, spending quality time with loved ones also connecting with nature helps the reduction of stress.

Implementing these into your day or even weekly routine will help the benefits of looking after your mental health.
Bottling things up also can affect your mental health. When you start feeling overwhelmed, try reaching out for support, there are many organizations that help such as Samaritans helpline which you can call on 116 123 (UK)
Secure Healthcare Solutions provides support to individuals who suffer from mental health problems such as Learning Disabilities, autism, and behavior support. We offer support in the community for adults and for children. We range from a minimum of 6 hours of support to 24-hour support.

How does Secure Healthcare Solutions support Individuals with Mental Health?

Secure Healthcare Solutions services range from a community support or activity support we provide staffing solutions with a “Buddy” service to help you rehabilitate back to the community and help support you with your mental health needs.

Our locations where we support are:

Mental Health Care Wolverhampton
Mental Health Care Birmingham
Mental Health Care Dudley
Mental Health Care Walsall
Mental Health Care Sandwell
Mental Health Care South Stafford

For more information click the link to our website or give us a call to see how we can support individuals who suffer from Mental Health:
https://securehealthcaresolutions.co.uk/what-we-do/
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