Healthcare Support Worker

Barts Health NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust is seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Health Care Worker to join the Adult Cardiac Critical Care Unit at the Bart's Heart Centre based at St Bartholomew. This role supports a 24-hour service with long days, night duty, weekends and bank holidays.

You will work to ensure safe, quality care and a compassionate approach to caring for patients within the critical care environment, contributing to the Trust's objectives and values.

Qualifications

• We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Health Care worker to join the Adult Cardiac Critical Care Unit.
• The role covers a 24 hour service; long days, night duty, weekends and bank holidays are required.
• Excellent communication skills and a compassionate approach to caring for patients in critical care are essential.

Responsibilities

• Support the ward manager and team in delivering safe, quality care.
• Assist in providing a safe and caring environment for patients in the critical care unit.
• Work across a 24 hour service including long days and night duties.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Compassionate approach

Job description

The successful candidate will support the ward manager and the team in ensuring quality of care is constantly improving and the service is developing and supporting Trust objectives and values

As part of the recruitment process for this post, candidates will be required to complete an online literacy and numeracy test and only if they pass this, will they be invited to a formal interview

The post holder will need to have excellent communication skills and a compassionate approach to caring for patients within the critical care environment.

The successful candidate will support the ward manager and the team in ensuring safe, quality care is constantly improving and the service is developing and supporting Trust objectives and values

Support registered nurses in the provision of a safe and caring environment.

This role covers a 24 hour service and you are required to do long days, night duty, weekends and bank holidays

We are looking for enthusiastic and experienced Health Care worker to join the Adult Cardiac Critical Care Unit at the Bart's Heart Centre based at St Bartholomew. The Bart's Heart centre is a cardiac hospital that accepts elective and emergency patients as well as patients that are admitted via the busy heart attack centre.

The post holder will need to have excellent communication skills and a compassionate approach to caring for patients within the critical care environment.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.