Health Care Support Worker
Job Description
Job summary
Join us and be part of our overnight nursing service! Help us shape and develop the service. We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker or a candidate that would be willing to work towards a Band 3, to join our team in Devizes, for 20 hours and 30 minutes a week.
Please note we are unable to offer overseas sponsorship for this role.
Here at Wiltshire Health and Care we are very excited to announce the development and expansion of our community services in line with the NHS Long Term Plan and a number of strategic priorities for community health services to transform our out of hospital care. We are boosting the response capacity within the existing community teams to provide a dedicated resource across each of our localities within Wiltshire.
For an informal visit or for further information please contact; Clare Tinnion on 01380 732 525 or email atc.tinnion@nhs.net
Please note we are unable to offer overseas sponsorship for this role.
Main duties of the job
- To implement treatment by following care plan.
- To keep the patient at the centre of his or her care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
- To undertake the daily care and support of delegated patients.
- Deliver treatment/care within a community setting as specified in a written care plan, under the guidance of a registered practitioner.
- Wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure that patient receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting.
- Responsibility for the day-to-day care of patients including monitoring.
- Support the taking of medication under the authorisation of the qualified practitioner.
- To have a good knowledge of infection control, to reduce risk of health care acquired infections.
- To enable patients to reach their optimum level of independence.
- Support terminally ill patients and their carers/relatives.
- To communicate with individuals about routine and daily activities, this may include overcoming difficulties (e.g. hearing/language).
- To ensure the needs and wishes of the individual are documented.
- To work within a multi-professional team
- To undertake specific tasks as delegated.
- To assist registered and junior staff, referring to registered staff when necessary.
- To practice the principles and philosophy of individualised patient care in accordance with policy, procedures and regulatory bodys guidelines.
- To obtain consent for any treatment undertaken.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job responsibilities
As a Health Care Support Worker, you'll be part of our valued Overnight Nursing Team.
You will feel valued as a Health Care Support Worker within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £23,100 (pro rata to hours worked) with access to our group pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- Good general education.
- NVQ Level 3 in health care or willingness to achieve.
- Experience of working under distanced supervision.
- Experience of supporting other workers
- Ability to work as a team member.
- Delivering patient focused care.
- Ability to recognise own limitations.
- Typing/data inputting skills.
- Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids.
- Undertake specific nursing/therapy skills.
- Current full driving license and use of a car during working hours.
- Willing to work in other areas of HCRG Care Group as and when required to do so.
- Driven to achieve.
- Self-motivated.
- Good time management
- Food Hygiene certificate or willingness to undertake.
Person Specification
General Requirements
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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
HCRG Care Group
Address
HCRG Care Group
Devizes
Wiltshire
SN10 2EY
