Health Care Support Worker - Women's Health Ward
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Job summary
Women's Health Ward are looking to recruit a friendly, compassionate and dedicated Health Care Support Worker to the existing team.
If you have a passion for Gynaecology and would like to learn new skills within an area that is passionate about helping Women then we would like to hear from you, we have a wide range of patients who have either come in as an emergency admission, admission from clinic, through our dedicated Gynaecology Assessment Area or who have had planned elective surgery.
Women's Health is a small but fast paced ward, where no two days are ever the same.
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:
- Understand and comply with HCSW mandatory induction standards and code of conduct
- Caring and kind
- To supervise junior/new members of staff and student nurses
- Cheerful and friendly
- Maintain up to date records
- Able to follow direct instructions
- Ability to work as part of the multidisciplinary team.
- Effective written and verbal communication, literacy, numeracy and IT skills.
- Participate in audit and quality improvement
- Be well organised
About us
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.
Details
Date posted
12 July 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 2
Salary
£22,383 a year per annum, pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
229-SUR-6474363
Job locations
Hereford County Hospital
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
Hereford County Hospital
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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