Health Care Assistant

Job Summary

A great opportunity has arisen to join us as a Assistant Health Care Support Worker at Great Western Hospital in Swindon. You will play a key role in delivering high-quality, person-centered care and services to support individuals and teams. Working within a collaborative environment, you will provide essential services tailored to meet the unique needs of those we serve. Based in Swindon, you will have the flexibility to work within a model that supports both on-site and hybrid working arrangements, depending on the nature of the role. HCRG Care Group is committed to fostering an agile and adaptable workforce to best meet the needs of our organization and service users.

Please note we are unable to offer overseas sponsorship for this role.

Main duties of the job

An Assistant Health Care Support Worker (AHCSW) is a core member of the team delivering personal care to patients and supporting registered practitioners to deliver high quality, compassionate care. You will carry out a range of non-clinical healthcare tasks, under the direct supervision of the registered healthcare practitioner. Your role is to provide compassionate care, to agreed quality standards and in accordance with Trust values. There will be opportunities to develop your knowledge and skills, specific to your individual needs. Training will be provided to ensure you have the required core skills and skills set specific to your area of work. You will also be supported to obtain your care certificate if you do not have this qualification.

About Us
About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Date posted

02 April 2025

Pay scheme
Other
Salary

£23,875 to £23,875 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

HCRGCG/TP/111228/14817

Job locations

HCRG Care Group

Swindon

Wiltshire

SN3 6BB

Job Description

Job responsibilities

As a Health Care Assistant, you'll be part of our valued team on our Orchard or Forest Wards at Great Western Hospital.

You Will Feel Valued As a Health Care Assistant Within HCRG Care Group, Receiving Access To Exclusive Rewards And Benefits Including:

• £23,875 (pro rata to hours worked) with access to our group pension
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

Essential Requirements

• Able to demonstrate literacy and numeracy skills at interview assessment.
• Prior experience of providing care in a healthcare or social setting.
• Evidence of ability to work as a member of a team.
• Experience of time management and prioritising work.
• Understands and is committed to a caring approach to patients and relatives.
• Effective and appropriate communication skills both written and verbal.
• Able to complete appropriate documentation accurately.
• Demonstrate an awareness of healthcare work, policies and procedures.
• Committed to providing high quality patient care.
• IT skills, competent in Microsoft Office.
• Keyboard skills.
• Ability and willingness to undertake appropriate training within given time frames.
• Flexible and adaptable to change, able to work a range of shifts and moving across wards/units dependent on clinical needs.
• Able to demonstrate calm, caring patient manner and attitude.
• Enthusiasm and commitment to working within the healthcare setting.
• Willing to work in other areas of the Trust or Trust-wide as and when required to do so.
• Able to meet the physical and developmental demands of the role; The role is physically demanding and can include standing for prolonged periods, moving and handling patients and equipment and other healthcare related tasks.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details
Employer name

HCRG Care Group

Address

HCRG Care Group

Swindon

Wiltshire

SN3 6BB

Employer's website

https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/