Main area: Breast Care Health Care Support Worker
Grade: Band 3
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Full time)
Job ref: 040-ACS010-0125
Employer: Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Unified Breast Unit - Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr
Town: Ystrad Mynach, Hengoed
Salary: £24,433 - £26,060 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/01/2025 23:59
Health Care Support Worker - Unified Breast Unit - YYF
Band 3
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh; any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are shortlisted for this post, you will be contacted via the email account you used to apply for this post; therefore, please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment-related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.
Job overview
An exciting new opportunity has arisen to work within the new Unified Breast Unit in YYF. The new unit is a state-of-the-art breast unit, allowing patients with breast disease and conditions to be treated within a multidisciplinary team, caring for patients from diagnosis and throughout treatment.
Main duties of the job
Under the direction and supervision of the Nurse in Charge, the post holder will work closely with and support professional staff in a range of duties to ensure the smooth running of the Breast Unit. The post holder will assist patients in all areas of the department and manage their care in an appropriate and caring manner.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow, and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary, and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications, and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work-life balance, provide occupational health support, and have an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high-quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NVQ/QCF Level 2 in Health and Social Care OR equivalent level of demonstrable experience and knowledge of personal care and related procedures which can be acquired by on-the-job training plus local training in Venepuncture, ECG, and other clinical duties for the role.
* A commitment to undertaking continuing personal development and training. Understand and respect the principles of confidentiality.
* Able to act in a responsible, caring, and supportive manner at all times. Friendly, approachable, and supportive. Non-judgmental.
* NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care.
Experience
* Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification.
To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non-UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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