Senior Healthcare Support Worker - Critical Care | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Healthcare Support Worker to join our Critical Care team at East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust based at Colchester General Hospital.

This post is offered full time or part time

You will be highly motivated, and willing to work within our well-established team of nurses and healthcare assistants to provide excellent support to our patients and their families, as well as contribute to the smooth running of our Critical Care Unit.

Depending on your level of experience, you will develop your competence and confidence through a programme of supervised practice, critical care specific competencies and a series of development days specifically for Band 3 staff. You will already have completed your Care Certificate.

• You will have excellent communication skills, be able to work well in a team and be able to work flexibly according to the day-to-day needs of the unit.
• You will work within a Clinical Specialist team and contribute to activities and projects with the goal of professional and practice development.
• The Critical Care Units form part of the East of England Critical Care Delivery Network and both sites utilise a paperless clinical information system.
• Do you possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work confidently and collaboratively across professional boundaries? Are you keen and motivated to learn?
• If so then we are looking for highly motivated healthcare assistants who are passionate about the care of patients to join our well-established critical care team, in delivering a 24/7 service.
• Applicants will be expected to undertake internal rotation and weekend duties

If we receive sufficient number of applications this vacancy may close early.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

This advert closes on Sunday 26 Jan 2025