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Wye Valley Nhs Trust; Hereford; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking Health Care Support Workers to provide essential support to nursing teams and patient care. Responsibilities include assisting with personal needs, serving meals, and monitoring patients. Applicants with or without prior experience are welcome. The role offers flexibility with full-time and part-time options. Ideal candidates will be caring, organized, and possess good communication skills.

Qualifications

• No previous healthcare experience is necessary.
• Candidates must have the right to work in the UK.
• Ability to assist with personal needs including washing and toileting.

Responsibilities

• Washing and dressing patients.
• Serving meals and feeding patients.
• Helping patients to move around.
• Making beds.
• Talking to patients and their families.
• Monitoring patient condition.

Skills

Caring and kind

Cheerful and friendly

Good listening and communication skills

Able to follow direct instructions

Organised

Team player

Initiative

Job description

Overview

As a Health Care Support Worker, you will be a hugely valuable support to our Nursing teams providing care to our patients. Every day will be different and you will work alongside the rest of the team carrying out a wide range of tasks and assisting with care to support the needs of the patients and their families.

Responsibilities

• Washing and dressing patients
• Serving meals and feeding patients
• Helping patients to move around
• Making beds
• Talking to patients and their families
• Monitoring patient condition

We have a number of full time and part time Health Care Support Worker (HCSW) opportunities available across the Trust to applicants with or without previous health care experience, who are wanting to develop a career in health care.

Qualifications / Qualities

• Caring and kind
• Cheerful and friendly
• Keen to support patients with their personal needs including washing and toileting
• Able to follow direct instructions
• Happy to work in a team but also able to use own initiative
• Have good listening and communication skills
• Be well organised

Additional information

Full time and part time positions are available, and we are open to discuss flexible working arrangements. This opportunity is available for candidates who have the right to work in the UK. Applications from underrepresented groups including LGBT+, Ethnic Minority or disabled people are particularly welcome.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye. We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends. More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire. We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential. Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential." Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.