Health Care Support Worker - Leominster

Wye Valley NHS Trust

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Job summary

Leominster Community Hospital are looking to recruit a Health Care Support Worker.

You will be required to work a rotational shift system to include working weekends and bank holidays attracting unsocial hours percentage.

We work within a Multidisciplinary Teampromoting independence and patient centred care, implementing realistic individualised goals to allow proactive discharge planning.

For further information please contact Community Hospital Sister Bev Johns, on Tel: 01568 617300 or email beverley.johns@wvt.nhs.uk

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

A Full time position 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 , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals 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

05 November 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£23,615 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

229-IC-6013607-A

Job locations

Leominster Community Hospital

Leominster

HR6 8JH


Job description

Job responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

  • Ability to communicate effectively in English, verbally and in writing
  • Willingness to undertake the Maths and English Functional Skills qualifications if not already obtained

Desirable

  • Willingness to work towards Apprenticeship level 2/3 in Health & Social Care

Experience

Essential

  • Working with people

Desirable

  • Previous experience working in a care enviroment

Skills Knowledge and Abilities

Essential

  • Knowledge of personal care and related procedures

Desirable

  • Demonstrate knowledge of roles and responsibilities within clinical setting
  • Keyboard skills
Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

  • Ability to communicate effectively in English, verbally and in writing
  • Willingness to undertake the Maths and English Functional Skills qualifications if not already obtained

Desirable

  • Willingness to work towards Apprenticeship level 2/3 in Health & Social Care

Experience

Essential

  • Working with people

Desirable

  • Previous experience working in a care enviroment

Skills Knowledge and Abilities

Essential

  • Knowledge of personal care and related procedures

Desirable

  • Demonstrate knowledge of roles and responsibilities within clinical setting
  • Keyboard skills

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 details

Employer name

Wye Valley NHS Trust

Address

Leominster Community Hospital

Leominster

HR6 8JH


Employer's website

https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Wye Valley NHS Trust

Address

Leominster Community Hospital

Leominster

HR6 8JH


Employer's website

https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Community Hospital Sister

Beverley Johns

beverley.johns@wvt.nhs.uk

01568617300

Date posted

05 November 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£23,615 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

229-IC-6013607-A

Job locations

Leominster Community Hospital

Leominster

HR6 8JH


Supporting documents

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