Job overview
Band Senior Healthcare Support Worker
Sobell House Hospice (Inpatient Unit), Churchill Hospital, Oxford
Are you an experienced Healthcare Support Worker looking for opportunities to progress?
Are you keen to learn more about palliative care and develop your skills?
Do you want to work in a rewarding setting?
If the answer is yes then read on!
Main duties of the job
We are recruiting Senior Healthcare Support Workersto join our inpatient nursing team delivering excellent palliative care at Sobell House Hospice. We’re looking for an experienced Healthcare Support Worker with excellent interpersonal and communication skills who is keen to learn and take on new clinical skills to work alongside our nursing teams. We are looking for an enthusiastic, committed and professional approach to the delivery of care, ensuring the best patient and family experience. Candidates should be excellent team players with the ability to use their own initiative and judgement to resolve issues. They should also have a tactful, sensitive manner, work well under pressure, with a flexible approach and a willingness to suggest ideas for improvements. Previous Healthcare Support Workers experience and successful completion of the Care Certificate (or equivalent healthcare qualification) is essential, along with an ability to demonstrate compassion and a commitment to learning new skills.
The successful candidate can look forward to working in a professional supportive environment with a team that is passionate about delivering excellent palliative care to patients and support for their families.
For further details please contact:
Ward Manager: Christina Lovell (k)
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the .