Health Care Support Worker Band 2

Job summary

An Exciting opportunity for a Health Care Support Worker to work in the Trauma Assessment Unit (TAU) at Pilgrim Hospital based on ward 3a and at Lincoln County hospital based on Shuttleworth ward

The Trauma Assessment Unit (TAU) provides a 7 day service; providing a first point of contact and comprehensive triage and clinical assessment to patients and/or their carers/relatives resulting in a safe and appropriate clinical decision and plan of care for Orthopaedic trauma patients.

Referrals are received from Accident & Emergency departments, Urgent Treatment Centres, Out of Hours Services, GP and ambulance services across Lincolnshire for urology and orthopaedic speciality

Main duties of the job

Working under delegation and supervision of a registered Nurse/ Midwife, the Health Care Support Worker (HCSW) will undertake defined responsibilities appropriate to their role in the workplace setting

Support the Ambulatory senior nurse with health triage and assessment of ambulant individuals presenting with a urological and/or orthopaedic complaint, including supporting aversion of unnecessary hospital admission through assessment and treatment of individuals, assessing complex and specialist needs in order to assist the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.

.Working under delegation and supervision of a registered Nurse, the Health Care Support Worker (HCSW) will undertake defined responsibilities appropriate to their role in the workplace setting. They will comply with Trust policies, protocols, guidelines, the fifteen standards of the Care Certificate and the national strategy of Compassion in Practice and will ensure safe, compassionate and competent care is delivered to our patients and service users at all times.

It is a requirement of United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust that all HCSWs adhere to the Code of Conduct for healthcare support workers and adult social care workers.

All HCSW will be supported in completing the Care Certificate, which can be used to support applications to higher learning (Nurse Associate).

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