Health Care Support Worker

Job summary

The successful candidates will be responsible for assisting the registered nurses to meet the basic nursing needs of the patients in their care, as well as working from their own initiative and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced working environment.

You will need to have outstanding communication skills - you will be part of a team of fellow Health Care Support Workers, physician's assistants, registered nurses and nurse practitioners, junior Doctors and consultants.

You will be expected to communicate with these members of the team, along with liaising with our ward clerks on admissions, transfers and discharges.

Your day to day routine will consist of but is not limited to: meeting patients hygiene and toileting needs, serving meals and assisting patients to eat and drink, taking and recording of vital observations, blood glucose levels, maintaining good levels of stock and PPE, assisting with wound dressings, disposing of hazardous waste safely and correctly and documenting in patients notes.

You will be expected to have a good standard of literacy and numeracy, due to being required to document about the patients skin and the taking and recording of vital signs.

There will be the opportunity to further develop with training and education, we enroll all of our Health Care Support Workers onto basic life support training,

Main duties of the job

• Work co-operatively as part of the multi-disciplinary team supporting colleagues in work associated with patient care.
• Understand own level of responsibility and accountability in relation to registered staff.
• Communicate clearly, effectively and appropriately with the multi-disciplinary team, patients and their family, visitors and carers.
• Through practice demonstrate an understanding of Duty of Care and how this contributes to safe practices.
• Assist and as required provide patients with personal care.
• Following appropriate training and supervised practice, undertake identified competency based practices which are required for the ward / unit, after such tasks have been delegated to them by a registered nurse.
• Identify learning and development needs and produce a personal development plans in conjunction with your line manager / supervisor.
• Achieve and maintain competence in mandatory and statutory training associated with the role.

About us

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 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.