(*) Healthcare Assistant - Emergency Department

VerseOne Group; Leigh on Sea; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System is seeking a Health Care Support Worker to assist our Nursing and Midwifery teams in delivering compassionate patient care. You will work alongside the team to perform a wide range of tasks to meet patients and their families' needs.

No experience required – we will teach you everything you need to know. If you are caring, kind and keen to help, you already have the skills to be a great HCSW.

Qualifications

• Caring and kind with genuine desire to help patients and families.
• Flexibility and empathy in a busy care environment.
• Strong communication and listening skills.

Responsibilities

• Wash and dress patients.
• Serve meals and assist with feeding.
• Help patients move and make beds.
• Talk with patients and families to comfort and inform.
• Monitor patient condition and report changes.

Skills

Caring and kind

Cheerful and friendly

Good listening and communication

Team player

Willing to follow instructions

Job description

As a Health Care Support Worker, you will be a hugely valuable support to our Nursing and Midwifery 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.

• Examples of what you may do as part of your role
• 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 and personal attributes needed
• 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

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.

No experience? No problem. We will teach you everything you need to know. To us, it is more important that you are a caring and kind person with a genuine desire to help and support patients and their families. If this sounds like you, then you already have the skills that make a great Health Care Support Worker.

Mid and South Essex is a great place to work, offering a working environment with an inclusive culture that looks after and values our people and creates a sense of belonging. We encourage applications from people who embrace our values and who will enable us to expand our diverse workforce. The Healthcare Support Worker role can also lead to a range of career opportunities. With the right support, those who want to can undertake the necessary training to become our future nurses, nursing associates and midwives.

Please be aware there is no VISA sponsorship available for this role, The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together key health, care, community, and voluntary sector organisations from across our area. Our aim is to work together in partnership to join up health and care services, improving our populations health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. One such example of this collaborative work is the launch of our HCA Academy, an IC