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Job overview
Health Care Support Worker – Information Drop in Day
Do you want to make a difference to people’s lives? Is working in health care the career for you?
Our recruitment specialists are available for you to meet with, to discuss your possible career in health care at Wye Valley NHS Trust
We have a number of full time and part time Health Care Support Worker (HCSW) opportunities available across the Trust to applicants with or without previous health care experience, who are wanting to develop a career in health care.
You can visit our recruitment specialists on 11 February between 11am – 4pm, Recruitment Franklin Barnes, Commercial Road, Hereford, HR1 2BB to discuss current HCSW opportunities. No pre booking required, please bring along your CV.
Please note: Wye Valley NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship for these roles. Dependant visa’s requirement: minimum of 12 months remaining prior to expiry.
To find out more details, please visit: www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/work-with-us/events
Main duties of the job
As a Health Care Support Worker, you will 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.
Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view detailed Job Description and Person Specification for this role, please see attached supporting documents.
If applicable; upon completion of the Apprenticeship you will be a fully trained Health Care Assistant, having completed either a Level 2 , (12 -18 months) Level 3 Apprenticeship( 18- 24 months), and be able to apply for further developmental roles across the Trust.
https://www.dynamictraining.org.uk/apprenticeship-programmes/
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria- Working with people
- Previous experience working in a care enviroment
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria- Flexible and adaptable to a changing environment
- Ability to work as part of a team as well as autonomously
- Ability to work well under pressure
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria- Will be expected to meet the Care Certificate standards within 12 weeks of commencing employment with the Trust
- Good standard of secondary education
- Willingness to undertake Maths and English Functional Skills qualifications (If not already obtained)
- Diploma level 2/3 in Health & Social Care
- Willingness to work towards Apprenticeship level 2/3 in Health & Social Care (If not already obtained)
- A minimum Maths and English GCSE grades 3 – 9 or grades A,B,C,D or equivalent Functional Skills qualifications or pass internal literacy & numeracy assessment (Essential band 3)
Skills Knowledge and Abilities
Essential criteria- Undertake personal care and related procedures
- Demonstrate knowledge of roles and responsibilities within clinical setting
- Ability to perform patient observations and recordings