Healthcare Support Worker

HCRG Care Group; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group pension

Free tea & coffee

My Reward Hub discounts

Wages on demand

Wellbeing resources

Learning & development

Innovation funding

Open culture

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Health Care Support Worker to join an inpatient multi-professional team. You will deliver high-quality care, support patient hygiene, mobility and nutrition, and assist with rehabilitation to promote independence.

You’ll work under supervision, comply with safeguarding, and contribute to a compassionate, learning-focused environment. Applicants should have Care Certificate or willingness to obtain it, good general education, and strong teamwork and time-management

Qualifications

• Good general education required or equivalents.
• Care Certificate or willingness to achieve it.
• Experience of working under supervision required.
• Experience of supporting other workers.
• Able to work well in a team and deliver patient-focused care.
• Able to recognise own limitations and maintain safety.
• Typing/data inputting skills expected.
• Physical ability for manual patient handling and lifting aids.
• Undertake specific nursing/therapy skills as required.
• Driven to achieve and self-motivated with good time management.

Responsibilities

• Provide high level essential care including hygiene, continence, mobility, nutrition and hydration.
• Support recovery and rehabilitation to promote independence.
• Work within guidelines and protocols in an inpatient setting.
• Collaborate with a multi-professional team to meet patient needs.
• Participate in safeguarding and safer recruitment practices.
• Contribute to a positive, inclusive work environment and learn continuously.

Skills

Good general education

Care Certificate

Experience under supervision

Experience supporting others

Teamwork

Patient-focused care

Self-motivation

Time management

Typing/data inputting

Manual handling

Nursing/therapy skills

Driven to achieve

Job description

To work within a multi-professional team in an Inpatient setting, providing, support, care, and treatment to individuals, within guidelines and protocols identified for the role. You will be expected to provide a high level of Essential Care to meet the needs of patients in the Ward. This will include helping to maintain personal hygiene, continence, mobility, nutrition and hydration. As well as supporting recovery you will promote rehabilitation, encouraging patients to regain and maintain as much independence as possible.

We're looking for someone who is motivated and compassionate with the following:

• Good general education.
• Care Certificate - or willingness to achieve.
• Experience of working under supervision.
• Experience of supporting other workers.
• Ability to work as a team member.
• Delivering patient focused care.
• Ability to recognise own limitations.
• Typing/data inputting skills.
• Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids.
• Undertake specific nursing/therapy skills.
• Driven to achieve.
• Self-motivated.
• Good time management

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

You will feel valued as a Health Care Support Worker within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £25,500 (pro rata to hours worked) with access to our group pension
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.