Clinical Support Worker- Ward 10

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Clinical Support Worker who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

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? Then this may be the role for role for you!

Within this role you will work under the supervision of a Registered Nurse to provide a high standard of patient care at our Mount Vernon Cancer Centre.

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

You must be 18+ to undertake this post.

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

The Trust can also offer you a flexible career approach to learning which comprises of a "step on" and "step off" option.

This is a training post, while applicants must undertake 16 months apprenticeship.

***Applicants will be invited to part take in an online diagnostic assessment of Maths and English in relation to the apprenticeship**

All Clinical Support Workers are based on Hospital Wards / Departments and will be working Days, Nights, Weekends and Bank Holidays.

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.

ENHT is seeking to maintain and expand the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre staff as we move to an exciting new future.

We welcome applications from those who would relish the opportunity to be part of new and developing cancer service, building on the excellent reputation, research and patient experience the Cancer Centre already delivers.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Mount Vernon Cancer Centre

Northwood

HA6 2RN

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

Mount Vernon Cancer Centre

Northwood

HA6 2RN

Employer's website

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

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