Health Care Support Worker, Outpatients

Job summary

A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen to join the small and friendly team at Ysbyty Cwm Rhondda.

Ysbyty Cwm Rhondda facilitates the needs of patients requiring care and treatment for a wide range of conditions. The department can be busy; so staff must be able to multi skill and work under pressure. Staff must be fit to stand for periods of time.

The successful candidate must be able to perform the tasks of Patient observations and basic wound care. Staff must be friendly and approachable and have the abilit to reassure and support patients thropughout their journey through the unit. These are an essential part of the role.

Support will be given to the successful candidate to learn the various clinics and procedures associated with them.

The department operates over 5 days; Monday to Friday. Shifts are allocated to clinical need.

Applicants must be flexible to the service, and will be expected to work across CTM sites when required.

English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply

Main duties of the job

The main duties of this post are;

* Facilitating clinics

* Recording observations

* Basic wound care

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn't mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing candidates. This isn't 'fluency', just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve