Health Care Assistant (Clinical Support Worker)

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Clinical Support Workers who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. You will work under the supervision of a Registered Nurse to provide a high standard of patient care.

Are you looking to develop a career within healthcare? Do you want to work in a hospital setting, helping to provide quality care to patients? Do you want to learn and develop your personal qualifications, while also working? Then this may be the role for role for you!

You must be 18+ to undertake this post.

We currently have CSW opportunities in the following areas:

• Acute areas such as AMU- Fast paced assessment centre for inpatients to decide their pathway into acute services or Emergency Department.
• 5A-covering a variety of different specialities ranging from Ear Nose and Throat, plastics and Female surgical ward.
• Barley Ward- Stroke Ward with a focus on rehabilitation

*This is an overview of our current vacancies however we may have CSW roles available within areas of the trust* Please see below Ward Brochure attachment to find out more information on our ward areas.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

The ideal candidate will be:

• Kind and caring
• Friendly and approachable
• Able to follow instruction and procedures in line with Trust Policy
• Able to demonstrate using own initiative
• Be flexible

Some of the responsibilities within the role of Clinical Support Worker are:

• Communicating with patients
• Working under the supervision of a Registered Nurse/Midwife
• Washing / dressing patients
• Taking patients physiological observations
• Making beds and cleaning bed areas
• Serving meals and assisting feeding patients
• Talking / listening to patients

To find out further details about the role please visit our Trust Clinical Support worker page - https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/careers/roles-professions/clinical-support-workers/

This is a training post, while applicants must undertake 16 months apprenticeship. When undertaking the apprenticeship you will be expected to work a minimum of 30 hours per week.

***Applicants will be invited to part take in an Functional skills assessment on the selection day** Practice is recommended

If you are successfully shortlisted you will be invited to a Selection day in December

We have vacancies across all our divisions, which include planned and unplanned. All Clinical Support Workers are based on Hospital Wards / Departments and will be working Days, Nights, Weekends and Bank Holidays.

Please see attached example shift pattern.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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