Health Care Support Worker - Ward 2B

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is offering a ward-based Healthcare Assistant role in Knowsley. You will support the Registered Nurse to deliver five-star patient care, focusing on dignity and privacy for patients.

The role requires excellent communication and teamwork within a busy hospital setting. Responsibilities include assisting with personal care under supervision, recording care information, and helping the MDT provide safe, high-quality, compassionate,

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work as part of the ward team.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care to patients under supervision, including basic hygiene and feeding assistance.
• Record patient personal care information in line with local and trust policies.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, high-quality, compassionate care.
• Demonstrate ward routines to new staff as required.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Job description

Your responsibilities will include maintaining the privacy and dignity of patients and supporting the Registered Nurse in delivering five-star patient care,

• Undertake personal care duties for patients within the care setting accessing supervision from registered healthcare practitioner. Personal care refers to delivery of personal hygiene and assisting with feeding, not requiring clinical skills.
• Record patient's personal care information in accordance with local and trust policies.
• Work with all members of the multi-disciplinary team to deliver the Trust's vision and values providing safe, high quality compassionate, person-centred care.
• Demonstrate ward routine to new employees in own work area, where required

We are seeking flexible and enthusiastic individual who has excellent communication skills and will be able to work well as part of the ward team. Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care. Our Services: Acute Care Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites. Primary Care Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital. Community Services Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre. Specialist Regional Services We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme