Healthcare Support Worker

NHS; Pershore; On-site; GBP 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare organization as a full-time Healthcare Support Worker at Pershore Community Hospital. In this dynamic role, you will support the multidisciplinary team in achieving rehabilitation goals, providing direct care to patients and their families. Emphasizing training and development, this position offers flexibility and a wide range of wellbeing support.

Benefits

27 days leave plus bank holidays

Generous NHS pension

Flexible working opportunities

Health and wellbeing opportunities

Qualifications

• Basic IT skills required.
• Experience working with adults in a care setting.
• Reliable and punctual work ethic.

Responsibilities

• Assist with admitting patients and undertaking clinical procedures.
• Provide safe and effective care in partnership with the multidisciplinary team.
• Support patients with their daily living activities.

Skills

Basic knowledge of nursing adults

Ability to communicate clearly

Ability to challenge poor behaviour

A positive attitude

Flexible and adaptable team member

Education

Good standard of general education to GCSE level

Expected to undertake relevant Level 2 qualification

Job description

Go back Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Healthcare Support Worker

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Job summary

We arecurrently recruiting 2 full time Band 2 Healthcare Support Workers to be partof our team at Pershore Community Hospital, which has an inpatient ward with 26beds. The candidate will work closely with the multidisciplinary team (MDT) toachieve specific rehabilitation goals. This will be a challenging and excitingopportunity and will enable the individual to develop new and existing skills.

PershoreCommunity Hospital plays a critical role in the delivery of local NHS services,providing more care and treatment closer to peoples homes. Emphasis is toreduce length of stay whilst ensuring excellent care which is safe, effective,personalised and compassionate and to the standards you would expect for yourfamily and friends.

Join our team, we prideourselves in providing outstanding care to patients across Herefordshire andWorcestershire. We will provide you with resources to develop and progress along-term career as well as flexibility, continual professional development aswell as a wide range of wellbeing and support.

This post requires working rotationalshifts.

Please note the Trust will not providesponsorship to work for this role, to apply you must have current right to workin the UK status.

Main duties of the job

Assist withadmitting patients to the ward and the care of their relatives

Undertake clinicalprocedures following assessment of competencies by qualified senior members ofstaff

Carry outdelegated nursing care

Act as health

Provide safeand effective care

Identifiesareas for the improvement

Assistpatients with attending to the activities of daily living and support thetherapy team with the rehabilitation of the patient.

Assistpatients to sit up or out for breakfast.

Serveand prepare meals/breakfast and drinks, help to assist patients when required. Completeappropriate paperwork i.e food diaries and fluid balance charts.

Assistpatients with morning personal care and dressing.

Mobilisepatients using correct mobility equipment when required/liaise withphysiotherapy team.

Liaisewith nursing staff for information regarding Observations, catheters, labsamples, blood sugar monitoring, dressings and further health checks.

Carryout patient weekly assessments which involve weighing, clean and checkmattress, catheter bag change when required.

Storesto be restocked daily.

Assistpatients with toileting.

Assistto support patients to bed/ attach catheter night bags when required.

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust,we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitalsand community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental healthand learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people ofall ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexibleworking options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions,and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We valuediversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures,and ethnicities.

What we offer;

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you workunsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

If you would like to know more, please visit ourwebsite.

We encourage you to read the attached applicant guidance notes.

Sharingyour data - As a data controller we may sometimes need to process your data topursue our legitimate business interests, for example to request a survey fromyou (optional), to support the Trusts understanding of where you gainedinterest in working for the Trust.

Job responsibilities

Behave consistently with the values andbeliefs of the organisation and promote these on day to day basis.

Act as a role model to colleagues, alwaysseeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.

Use their initiative and take responsibilityfor themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide topatients.

Provide safe and effective practice topatients within the Community Hospital.

Practice as a member of the CommunityHospital Nursing Team to support and work in partnership with the largermulti-disciplinary team to provide patient care within a definedward/department.

For full details of the duties and criteriafor the role please refer to the job description and person specificationattached.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Basic knowledge of nursing adults and / or training
• Basic IT Skills

Experience

• Working with adults in a care setting
• Nursing experience within the NHS / Hospital Setting
• Experience of working in general medicine or rehabilitation

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to challenge poor behaviour
• A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
• Ability to praise and be supportive to others
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
• A flexible and adaptable team member

Qualifications

• A good standard of general education to GCSE level and will be expected to undertake the relevant Level 2 qualification on appointment to post
• Will be expected to meet the Care Certificate standards within 12 weeks of commencing employment with the Trust
• I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Additional Criteria

• Empathetic caring nature
• Punctual
• Reliable
• You understand that we will not provide sponsorship to work for this role.
• Willingness to undertake further training

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.

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

£24,169 a yearpro rata (£12.36 per hour)