Healthcare Support Worker - Pershore Community Hospital

Job summary

We require an enthusiastic team player to join our nursing team at Pershore Community Hospital. If you have an interest in elderly care and rehabilitation and want to work in a high functioning team to support patients and their families during the most challenging of times, this could be the post for you.

If you would like to develop your skills and knowledge within frailty care and are committed to the delivery of high-quality patient centred care, please consider coming to join the team at Pershore Community Hospital.

We are a twenty six bedded ward. Patients are cared for by all members of the multi-disciplinary team. The Unit is staffed 24/7, and medical support is provided by Advanced Clinical Practitioners and a part time GP.

Successful applicants will be expected to work a variety of shifts over a 7-day period including days and nights and weekends.

This role requires you to have current right to work in the UK which enables you to undertake the role without need of sponsorship. Given the current UK immigration regulations this role is not eligible for sponsorship and therefore it is not possible for the Trust to sponsor applicants.

Join our team, we pride ourselves in providing outstanding care to patients across Herefordshire and Worcestershire. We will provide you with resources to develop and progress a long-term career as well as flexibility, continual professional development as well as a wide range of wellbeing and support.

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Support Worker you will be responsible for providing care to people admitted to our ward for rehabilitation. We work closely as a multi-disciplinary team. Our focus is promoting the comfort and wellbeing of patients, enabling them to live as independently as possible. Pershore is a small but friendly team to work with. As a team we encourage ongoing learning and development through reflection and clinical supervision which we try and embed in our daily practice.

This will be a challenging and exciting opportunity and will enable the successful candidate to develop new and existing skills.

Pershore Community Hospital plays a crucial role in the delivery of local NHS services, providing more care and treatment to people closer to home. The emphasis is to reduce the length of stay in hospital, whilst ensuring excellent care which is safe, effective, personalised and compassionate to the standards you would expect to receive for your friends and family.

Our support workers are required to support the nurses in the running of the ward, working alongside all members of the MDT as well as patients, their families and carers to provided 24/7 rehabilitation to enable the highest level of independence and quality of life.

About us

We are community hospitals, neighbourhood teams and community health services across Worcestershire and the provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire. We work in partnership with other organisations to keep our community well at home for as long as possible.

We provide services for people of all ages, across a range of settings, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions.

We have an open and supportive culture, recognised by the CQC and other external regulators. We want you to thrive, offering you every opportunity to develop. We will support you; help you fulfil your ambitions with a varied and flexible training programme; and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We endeavour to offer an attractive work-life balance, with flexibility in our approach to help you get the most out of your career.

We provide our staff with direct access to a wealth of resources to support their wellbeing, from our Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub, to wellbeing festivals or access to free online exercise classes.

At the core of our values, we are committed to equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights. We take every opportunity to strengthen our approach to equality and diversity in delivering best patient care and the employment of our staff.

We would encourage you to visit the Trusts Recruitment Microsite, click the Employer Website link.

Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

Pershore Hospital

Queen Elizabeth Drive

Pershore

Worcestershire

WR10 1PS

Employer's website

https://careers.hacw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

Pershore Hospital

Queen Elizabeth Drive

Pershore

Worcestershire

WR10 1PS

Employer's website

https://careers.hacw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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