Job summary
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Day Surgery Hub at Kidderminster Treatment Centre.
We are looking for a dynamic Healthcare Assistant with initiative and a keen interest in Day Surgery. This is a part time role for 34.5 hours per week.
Do you want to be part of our team that is constantly evolving and moving forward?
Our vision is to become one of the top performing Surgical Hubs, delivering a safe efficient service, based on best practice across a variety of specialities including, general surgery, orthopaedics, gynaecology, ear, nose and throat and urology. Our aim is to continue providing high quality healthcare, whilst improving our utilization, reducing cancellations and any delays for treatment and DNA's.
'Putting patients first'
Main duties of the job
Your role as a Health Care Assistant (HCA) is to work alongside registered nurse as part of the Day surgery hub to provide care to patients.
The types of duties include assisting trained nurses to prepare patients for theatre, serving patients meals, caring for patient post operatively, helping people to mobilise, assisting patients with toileting, bed-making, generally assisting with patients' overall comfort, monitoring patients' conditions by taking temperatures, pulse, respirations and weight.
Acting with compassion you will put patients at the centre of all you do.
You will communicate effectively with patients and their carers.
This role will require you to work variable hours on a rota including nights and weekends.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
- Best services for local people
- Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
- Best use of resources
- Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Details
Date posted
09 June 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 2
Salary
£24,465 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
C9365-25-0526
Job locations
Kidderminster General Hospital
Bewdley Road
Kidderminster
Worcestershire
DY116RJ
Employer details
Employer name
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
Kidderminster General Hospital
Bewdley Road
Kidderminster
Worcestershire
DY116RJ
Employer's website
https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)



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