Health Care Support Worker

HCRG Care Group; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 27,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading community healthcare team as a Health Care Support Worker in Chippenham. This role offers a chance to make a significant impact on patients' lives while working in a supportive environment. You will be responsible for implementing care plans, supporting patients, and ensuring their well-being. Ideal candidates will have NVQ Level 3 in health care or be willing to obtain it, along with strong communication and teamwork skills.

Benefits

Access to group pension

Free tea and coffee

Discounts on everyday purchases

Access to mental and physical wellbeing support

Opportunities for continuing professional development

Qualifications

• Good general education.
• Willingness to achieve NVQ Level 3 in health care.
• Typing/data inputting skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement treatment by following care plan.
• Support the taking of medication under qualified supervision.
• Monitor day-to-day care of patients.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Time Management

Education

NVQ Level 3 in health care

Job description

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Job Introduction

Join Our Team and Make a Difference in Your Community!

The

Job Introduction

Join Our Team and Make a Difference in Your Community!

The Calne, Corsham, and Box Community Team is excited to welcome a Community Healthcare Support Worker to our dedicated and friendly team.

We’re offering a fantastic opportunity for a Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker—or someone enthusiastic and willing to train towards Band 3—to work 30 hours per week in a rewarding role that helps shape and develop vital community health services.

If you're passionate about making a real impact in people’s lives and want to be part of a supportive, forward-thinking team, we’d love to hear from you!

For any further information please contact Zoe Drewitt, Community Team Manager by email -

Main Responsibility

• To implement treatment by following care plan.
• To keep the patient at the centre of his or her care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
• To undertake the daily care and support of delegated patients.
• Deliver treatment/care within a community setting as specified in a written care plan, under the guidance of a registered practitioner.
• Wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure that patient receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting.
• Responsibility for the day-to-day care of patients including monitoring.
• Support the taking of medication under the authorisation of the qualified practitioner.
• To have a good knowledge of infection control, to reduce risk of health care acquired infections.
• To enable patients to reach their optimum level of independence.
• Support terminally ill patients and their carers/relatives.
• To communicate with individuals about routine and daily activities, this may include overcoming difficulties (e.g. hearing/language).
• To ensure the needs and wishes of the individual are documented.
• To work within a multi-professional team
• To undertake specific tasks as delegated.
• To assist registered and junior staff, referring to registered staff when necessary.
• To practice the principles and philosophy of individualised patient care in accordance with policy, procedures and regulatory body’s guidelines.
• To obtain consent for any treatment undertaken.
  
  

The Ideal Candidate

• Good general education.
• NVQ Level 3 in health care – or willingness to achieve.
• Experience of working under distanced supervision.
• Experience of supporting other workers
• Ability to work as a team member.
• Delivering patient focused care.
• Ability to recognise own limitations.
• Typing/data inputting skills.
• Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids.
• Undertake specific nursing/therapy skills.
• Current full driving license and use of a car during working hours.
• Willing to work in other areas of HCRG Care Group as and when required to do so.
• Driven to achieve.
• Self-motivated.
• Good time management
• Food Hygiene certificate or willingness to undertake.
  
  

Package Description

As a Health Care Support Worker, you’ll be part of our valued Corsham, Calne and Box Community Team.

You will feel valued as a Health Care Support Worker within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £24,486 (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
  
  

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's 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.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

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