Health Care Support Worker - Acute Cardiac Unit - Band 2

Job summary

ACU is an Acute Cardiac Unit caring for cardiac and medical patients. We work closely with The Lincoln Heart Centre caring for patients from across the whole of Lincolnshire.

We are looking for Health Care Support Workers to join us in an environment where we strive for excellence. A positive patient centred experience is the motivation to our care delivery.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work within an established team carrying out essential patient care under the direction and supervision of a qualified nurse. They will work as an effective and responsible member of the team acting consistently with legislation, policies, procedures and other quality approaches adhering to ULHT values and standards.

GCSE English Language & Maths Grade E or above or equivalent.

Previous experience of working in a health/care setting is desirable but not essential.

Are you compassionate, approachable and friendly?

Do you have a passion to provide excellent and best quality care to patients and their families?

Do you have excellent communication skills that include active listening and empathy?

If you answered yes, we would like to hear from you.

About us

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated