Health Care Support Worker

STOCKPORT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Stockport; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension

Leave entitlement (27-33 days + BH)

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrifice

Job summary

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Health Care Support Worker for Bluebell Ward on a permanent basis (37.5 hours per week). You will provide personal care, support with nutrition and hydration, and assist with patient safety and skin integrity under qualified nursing supervision to help patients return home safely.

The role emphasises flexible working, with a strong commitment to diversity and community representation within Stockport, and the NHS pension scheme along with other salary

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care as required
• Support with nutritional and hydration needs
• Help with patient safety and skin integrity under supervision of qualified nursing staff

Job description

Health Care Support Worker: Permanent (37.5 hours) Bluebell Ward is a 25 bedded community based unit focused on discharge to assess and complex discharges. Patients are discharged to our unit when they are medically fit to leave hospital but they can not go home as they may need more rehabilitation, or equipment in their home or support with care. Our focus always is home first and we have a multi-disciplinary team of nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, discharge coordinators, social workers and health care support workers to ensure our patients receive the best care and support to get them home as soon as possible., As a health care support worker on Bluebell you play an absolutely fundamental role in ensuring our patients are well cared for, listened to and supported. Your role would be to provide personal care as required, supporting with nutritional & hydration needs, helping with patient safety and skin integrity under the supervision of qualified nursing staff. We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population. We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service. Benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice