Clinical Support Worker - Minster Ward
Job Description
Job summary
Step into a hands-on, rewarding role where compassion, teamwork, and clinical care come together to make a real difference every day. As a Clinical Support Worker, you'll be at the frontline of patient care--supporting individuals through their surgical journey and helping them feel safe, comfortable, and cared for at every stage.
Working alongside Registered Nurses on Minster Ward, you'll play a vital role in delivering high-quality pre- and post-operative care. From assisting with personal care and monitoring vital signs to carrying out clinical tasks such as ECGs, phlebotomy, and basic wound care, your contribution ensures patients receive attentive, personalised support when they need it most.
This is more than a support role--it's an opportunity to build meaningful connections with patients and be part of a close-knit multidisciplinary team. You'll help create a clean, safe, and reassuring environment while responding with empathy and professionalism in both routine and emotionally challenging situations.
If you're organised, compassionate, and ready to be part of a team that puts patient wellbeing at the centre of everything, this role offers the chance to develop your skills while making a genuine impact on people's lives every single day.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
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Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Must understand basic requirements for personalised and individualised care
- Recognition of a person's right for privacy and dignity
Desirable
- Awareness of Safeguarding issues
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE Maths and English or equivalent
- Care Certificate
- Apprenticeship Level 3 in Care or equivalent vocational experience
Desirable
- Care certificate qualification
Further Training
Essential
- Ability to attend 3 day clinical induction
- Committed to attending further training and development as identified
Experience
Essential
- Able to demonstrate clear and robust verbal and written English communication skills
- Experience of working as a team
- Previous care work experience
- Previous face-to-face customer care experience
Desirable
- Previous experience in a hospital setting
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Flexible approach
- Able to work flexibly on a varied shift pattern according to the roster including nights and weekends
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Newark Hospital
Boundary Road
Newark
NG24 4DE
United Kingdom