Healthcare Support Worker - Gynaecology

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board; Pontyclun; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Pontyclun seeks a Health Care Assistant to support Women's Health services. This role involves assisting clinical staff, maintaining patient records, and ensuring a high standard of holistic care. The ideal candidate will have basic IT skills, experience in patient observation, and the ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team. Applicants should be dedicated to patient confidentiality and quality care.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical duties such as recording patient observations and assisting during examinations.
• Proficient in IT skills including Word Processing.
• Capacity to work within a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Support professional practitioners in providing holistic care.
• Assist medical and nursing staff across the Women’s Health units.
• Maintain patient confidentiality and ensure accurate record-keeping.

Skills

Basic IT skills

Patient observation and documentation

Communication skills

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a dynamic team within the Colposcopy and Hysteroscopy service in Royal Glamorgan Hospital. The role would be: To support the professional practitioners, to assist in the provision of high standards of holistic care The Health Care Assistant (HCA) should assist with creating a welcoming, caring and safe environment. The post holder will be required to work both within the clerical and clinical environment supporting service provision. To provide support and direct assistance to medical and nursing staff within all aspects of the Womens Health units by undertaking nursing care and treatment as appropriate and as planned for clients. Work as part of a multi-disciplinary/multi-agency team fostering good communication and working relations with colleagues from all disciplines often dealing with sensitive and emotive problems ensuring signposting to correct medical professional/clinic for ongoing management. Be proficient in a range of clinical duties which require a basic level of knowledge e.g. recording and documenting client observations, ensuring accurate measurements and recording of blood pressure, weight, height, Body Mass Index, pregnancy testing, venepuncture, urine testing etc. reporting to qualified staff as necessary. Act as a chaperone and assist the Doctor / Nurse during clinical examinations / procedures, as appropriate and as requested, as necessary, ensuring correct labelling of all samples. Ensure the availability of patient notes at all clinics (base and satellite) ensuring tracer system is maintained and update. Be experienced in basic IT skills including Word Processing and undertake any relevant training, ensuring all ongoing training needs are met. Input data onto Patient Information systems. Will ensure that all positive results from investigations are directed to the appropriate senior member of staff for action. Ensure that pathology/scan results is presented to medical/nursing staff for appropriate action and once action completed filed appropriately in the correct patient notes. Ensure that patient confidentiality is always maintained.

Organisation

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf. We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.