Healthcare Support Worker/Healthcare Assistant
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Job summary
Do you want to make a difference to people's lives? We are looking for individuals with or without experience to work in healthcare, to join the NHS family helping people from your local community. Healthcare Support Worker opportunities are available in:
- Wards RDH, QHB, FNCH, SRP & SJCH
- Emergency Department RDH
- Community Hospitals - FNCH, SRP & SJCH
- Theatres - RDH & QHB
No experience? No problem. We will teach you everything you need to know. To us, it is more important that you are a caring and kind person with a genuine desire to help and support patients and their families. If this sounds like you, then you already have the skills that make a great Health Care Support Worker.
UHDB is a great place to work, offering a working environment with an inclusive culture that looks after and values our people and creates a sense of belonging. We encourage applications from people who embrace our values and who will enable us to expand our diverse workforce.
What we Offer
- Strong team ethos
- NHS salary structure and pension
- 27 days holiday plus days off for bank holidays worked
- Enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
- Maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Childcare vouchers
- Wide range of LGBTI+ initiatives
- Health service discounts and online benefits
- Health and wellbeing support
- Discounts on public transport
- Disability Confident
- Reasonable adjustments
- Range of opportunities for flexible working
Main duties of the job
As a HCSW, you will be a valuable support to our Clinical 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 & dressing patients
Serving meals & feeding patients
Helping patients to move around
Making beds
Talking to patients & families
Monitoring patient condition
Skills & personal attributes needed
Caring, kind, cheerful & friendly
Keen to support patients with personal needs including washing & 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
If you are new to healthcare you will have the opportunity to work towards gaining the care certificate. This is an agreed set of standards that define the knowledge, skills and behaviours expected of specific job roles in the health and social care sectors. Whether you have previous care experience or not you will be well supported in your new working environment.
The Healthcare Support Worker role can lead to a range of career opportunities. With the right support, those who want to can undertake the necessary training to become our future nurses, nursing associates and midwives.
Closing Date: Sunday 20th August 2023
Interview Date: Saturday 2nd September 2023 at Royal Derby Hospital
About us
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
- Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
- On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
- Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts about UHDB:
- We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day
- We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week
- An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country
- Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
- Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres
- We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres
- We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day
Details
Date posted
04 August 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 2
Salary
£22,383 a year per annum (pro rata)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
320-PLD-HCA-0125
Job locations
Various
Derby and Burton
DE22 3NE
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Various
Derby and Burton
DE22 3NE
Employer's website
https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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