Health Care Support Worker, Trauma and Orthopaedic Ward

NHS; Llantrisant; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health organization is seeking a compassionate Health Care Support Worker for the Trauma and Orthopaedic Ward. You'll provide essential support to nursing staff in a busy unit, assisting with patient care, communication, and maintaining a hygienic ward environment. This role is ideal for candidates passionate about making a difference in patient care, with opportunities for professional development in basic life support and blood glucose monitoring.

Qualifications

• NVQ level 2 or equivalent preferred.
• Good understanding of health care roles.
• Previous health care experience is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Assist qualified nurses with patient care.
• Meet patients' hygiene and toileting needs.
• Take and record vital observations and blood glucose levels.

Skills

Caring for elderly patients

Skills in ward environment

Communication

Education

Good level of education

NVQ level 2 or equivalent

Job description

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Health Care Support Worker, Trauma and Orthopaedic Ward

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Job summary

The Trauma and Orthopaedic (T+O) Ward are looking for an enthusiastic health care support worker who wants to make a difference.

The T+O ward admit from the Emergency Department, and the major trauma unit in Cardiff, It is an extremely busy unit comprising of the Trauma Assessment Unit.

Exceptional team working is essential to this role, along with a warm and friendly bedside manner and the ability to work in a high-pressure area. Previous experience in a hospital/acute setting is beneficial but we accept applications from those without hospital care experience.

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This means Speaking & Listening at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2). We don't need fluency. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see the 'Croeso Candidate' booklet below.

English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply

Main duties of the job

The successful candidates will be responsible for assisting the qualified nurses to meet the basic nursing needs of the patients in their care, as well as working from their own initiative and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced working environment.

You will need to have outstanding communication skills - you will be part of a team of fellow HCSW's, physician's assistants, qualified nurses and nurse practitioners, junior Doctors and consultants. You will be expected to communicate with these members of the team along with liaising with our ward clerks on admissions, transfers and discharges.

Your day to day routine will consist of but is not limited to: meeting patients hygiene and toileting needs, serving meals and assisting patients to eat and drink, taking and recording of vital observations, blood glucose levels, maintaining good levels of stock and PPE, assisting with wound dressings, disposing of hazardous waste safely and correctly and documenting in patients notes.

You will be expected to have a good standard of literacy and numeracy, due to being required to document about the patients skin and the taking and recording of vital signs.

There will be the opportunity to further develop with training and education, we enrol all of our HCSW's on to basic life support training, and there will be opportunities to train to take blood glucose levels.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf. We live by our core values:

We listen, learn and improve

We treat everyone with respect

We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Good level of education
• NVQ level 2 or equivalent

Knowledge

• Good understanding of role
• Able to demonstrate what role entails

Experience

• Previous experience of Health care setting
• Hospital experience

Skills

• Working with care of elderly patients
• Skills in caring for patients in a ward environment
• Welsh language skills Speaking/Listening Level 3 or higher

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.

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