**COMMUNITY **Health Care Support Worker **RECRUITMENT EVENT**
Wye Valley NHS Trust
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Job summary
Health Care Support Worker - Recruitment OPEN DAYS
Do you want to make a difference to people's lives in 2023?We are actively recruiting to a number of Health Care Support Worker roles across our 3 community Hospitals.
This is a fantastic opportunity for health care support workers to develop a career in the NHS as a Health Care Support Worker at Wye Valley NHS Trust.
We have a number of full time and part time opportunities available across the Trust to applicants with previous health care experience, who are wanting to develop a career in health care.
This is a great opportunity to gain new skills, experience and knowledge for those who may wish to pursue a future career in nursing.
HCSW Payrates:
- Weekday Monday - Friday = £10.37 per hour
- Nights/Saturday = £14.62 (includes additional unsocial hours payment)
- Sunday/Bank Holiday = £18.98 (includes additional unsocial hours payment).
Wye Valley NHS Trust is also able to provide band 2 to band 3 career development and pay progression opportunities, subject to experience and competencies achieved.
To find out more drop in at one of our OPEN DAYS 4pm - 7pm- Leominster Community Hospital - Thursday 12th January
- Bromyard Community Hospital - Thursday 19th January
- Ross Community Hospital - Thursday 26th January
Main duties of the job
As aHealth Care Support Worker, youwill 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.
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.
Date posted
03 January 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 2
Salary
£20,270 to £21,318 a year Per Annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
229-IC-Recruitment-Event
Job locations
Herefordfordshire
Hereford,
HR1 2ER
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
Herefordfordshire
Hereford,
HR1 2ER
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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