Senior Health Care Support Worker

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are currently seeking a compassionate and dedicated Senior Health Care Support Workerto join our dynamic team on the Acute Medical Ward at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

As a vital member of our multidisciplinary team (MDT), you will play a key role in delivering outstanding patient care. This is a challenging and rewarding opportunity that will allow you to develop both new and existing clinical skills in a supportive environment.

What You'll Do:

• Assist in providing high-quality care to patients under the supervision of Registered Nurses.
• Carry out assigned duties to maintain hygiene, safety, and orderliness on the ward.
• Support clinical tasks such as phlebotomy, ECG recording, cannulation, and catheterisation (following appropriate training).
• Perform basic wound care and patient observations (e.g. respirations, blood pressure, pulse, temperature, oxygen saturation), recording results accurately and reporting abnormalities.
• Maintain a clean and safe clinical environment, contributing to infection control.
• Monitor and restock supplies, promoting efficient use of resources.
• Provide a courteous and helpful approach to patients, relatives, and visitors, supporting a positive ward atmosphere.

Shift Pattern: This role includes a mix of day and night shifts to meet the needs of the ward.

Apply now to join our team and make a difference in the lives of patients and their families!

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.