Healthcare Support Worker

Job summary

Butterfly Hospice

Health Care Support Worker

Band 2

Shifts covering 24 hours a day, seven days a week

• Earlies - 7am - 2.30pm
• Late - 12pm - 7.30pm
• Night- 7pm - 7:30am

An exciting opportunity has opened for a Health Care Support worker role within the Butterfly Hospice in-patient unit, Boston.

The successful candidate will work alongside Registered Nurses, providing an excellent standard of care to patients with palliative and end of life care needs, whilst also offering vital emotional support to their families.

The role involves a patient-centred and holistic approach to the care delivered. This includes assisting to meet hygiene needs, monitoring symptoms, basic wound care, and have the opportunity to develop clinical skills working closely with the registered nurses.

The successful candidate will join a busy and dynamic unit where they will be assisting the Nursing team in ensuring that patients receive the highest standard of care in a safe and pleasant environment.

IT skills are essential to this role.

We welcome a conversation prior to application by contacting the ward sister or deputy- Details attached to advert.

Main duties of the job

Assist and support in the delivery of prescribed interventions of health, therapy and social care in a caring and sensitive manner; recognising and reporting improvement, and achievement within the goals set by professional colleagues.

To actively report any deterioration in abilities or condition of patients they are asked to visit.

Monitor patient condition and report appropriately any change to senior staff.

To record own clinical observations within the patient record, reporting significant variances to senior clinicians.

About us

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.

At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS' workforce.

LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an 'earn while you learn' apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out more https://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/join-us/learning-and-dev