University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust
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Are you compassionate, caring, and communicative? Would you like to be the best you can be or grow your career in a world-class teaching hospital? Have you been considering a change of occupation and looking for secure and rewarding employment?
We believe our Healthcare Support Worker (HCSW) role offers this opportunity and our tailored training programme supports you whether you have experience OR if you are new to care.
University Hospital Southampton (UHS) is one of the largest acute teaching trusts in England and provides a wide range of healthcare services to some 1.9 million people living in Southampton and South Hampshire. Our Healthcare Assistants help our nurses and doctors at UHS, by offering the highest standards of personal care and support to our patients.
As a Healthcare Support Worker, you'll work under the guidance of a Registered Nurse or healthcare professional on one of our busy adult or child wards or outpatient areas. You will help our nurses and doctors at UHS, by offering the highest standards of personal care and support to our patients.
Main duties of the job
Your main day-to-day duties will include:
1. Washing and dressing patients and aiding in their personal hygiene
2. Assisting patients to access and use toilet facilities
3. Serving meals and helping to feed patients
4. Helping patients to safely move around
5. Assisting with bed making, cleaning tasks, errands, or general duties
6. Collecting pathological specimens e.g., Urine, faeces, sputum
7. Making patients and their families feel comfortable
Development:
After you have completed your 1-week foundation induction you will attend an extended induction consisting of 1 study day per month for 5 months (total 5 study days). During this time, with the support of your line manager you will be learning the additional skills necessary to be a Senior Healthcare Assistant such as:
1. Taking physiological measurement
2. Maintaining patients skin integrity
3. Local specific skills such as cannulation, catheterisation and ecgs
Upon successful completion of this training and its associated competency document containing the core HCSW competencies as well as the additional competencies required for a Band 3, you will progress into a Band 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker role.
Our fantastic staff can teach you the required skills if you share our values, are ready to learn and:
* Be able to work a variety of shifts as part of your work roster.
* Be available to work any day from Monday to Sunday depending on your shift pattern, including bank holidays
* Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills
* Are happy to carry out a variety of tasks including personal hygiene care to patients of all ages and backgrounds.
We consider both Part-Time and Full-Time applications, but you MUST be able to work a variety of shifts and days of the week as UHS operates a 24 hours a day service, 365 days of the year.
Unfortunately, we cannot currently offer set shifts e.g. nights only.
Please read the attached person specification and job description as this will support you in your application, and then apply via the link. If your application is successful, we will contact you to arrange a screening telephone call to discuss next steps.
If you’re the kind of person who believes in putting patients first, is always looking to improve and are a team player, then we’d love to hear from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience
* Completed care certificate or ability to complete within 6 months of appointment
* Capable of attaining NVQ level 3 in care with acute units corresponding to specialty or equivalent experience
* Completed secondary education
* Ability to move and handle patients and equipment
* Evidence of empathy, patience, and dependability
* Ability to deal with a range of difficult situations
* Be able to take instruction / directions and work within the confines of the role
* Ability to cope with fluctuating demands and pressures of the role
* Requirement to be aware of and adhere to the care certificate standards
* Capable of completing core HCSW competencies and additional specific competencies related to area of work within 12 months of appointment
* Previous experience in an acute hospital setting
* Previous experience in the volunteer sector
* Previous experience as a Teaching Assistant
* Previous experience as a Nursing Home Carer
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 name
University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust
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