Healthcare Support Worker

Employer: HCRG Care Group

Position: Healthcare Support Worker

Salary: £25,500 – £27,098 a year

Job Type: Part time, Full-time

Work location: Bristol

FULL JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Healthcare Support Worker, you’ll be part of our valued team on our John Stacey Ward, Paulton Memorial Hospital, Bristol.

Your Responsibilities include:

• Provide compassionate, patient-centred care in line with individual care plans.

• Support daily care and treatment under the guidance of a registered practitioner.

• Encourage patient and carer involvement in decision-making.

• Promote patient independence and dignity at all times.

• Work collaboratively within a multi-professional team

• Ensure clear, respectful communication, including support for language or hearing barriers.

• Maintain accurate documentation of patient needs and preferences.

• Practice effective infection control and contribute to a safe care environment.

• Assist in clinics (e.g. dressing, fracture) and carry out delegated tasks confidently.

• Support junior staff and seek guidance from registered staff when needed.

• Perform select administrative duties as required.

• Obtain appropriate consent and provide or request a chaperone when needed.

• Uphold policies, procedures, and professional standards at all times.

You will have 

• Good general education.

• Care Certificate – or willingness to achieve.

• Experience of working under supervision.

• Experience of supporting other workers.

• Ability to work as a team member.

• Delivering patient focused care.

• Ability to recognise own limitations.

• Typing/data inputting skills.

• Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids.

• Undertake specific nursing/therapy skills.

• Driven to achieve.

• Self-motivated.

• Good time management

Requirement 

• Experience of the NHS.

• Experience of work in an acute or urgent health care setting

• Basic wound care knowledge and skills

Benefit 

• £25,500 Pro rata with access to our group pension

• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you

• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates

• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling

• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise

• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

• A great opportunity has arisen to join us as a Healthcare Assistant on our Sulis Ward, St Martins Hospital, Bath.

• You will join a welcoming multidisciplinary team on our John Stacey ward, where our services run 7 days per week. We have the opportunity to offer full time and part time positions to help with the flexibility of hours to suit you!

• We provide general medical and stroke rehabilitation for those stepping down form the acute trusts; as well as supporting our primary care colleagues with admission avoidance and stepping up from the community.

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Application Process​

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