Employer Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Newark Hospital
Town Newark
Salary £23,615 pro rata per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 10/04/2025 23:59
Health Care Support Worker - Minster Ward
NHS AfC: Band 2
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
Job overview
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to advance your career in healthcare? We have an exciting opportunity for a Health Care Support Worker to join the team. Minster Ward is expanding to become an inpatient ward specialising in orthopaedic hip and knee replacements. We are also providing surgical day cases for patients undergoing a variety of elective or planned surgical procedures and investigations, including:
* General Surgery
* Orthopaedics
* Gynaecology
* Urology
* Ophthalmology
* Breast Surgery
* Plastics
This is a busy and dynamic ward, offering an excellent opportunity to develop a broad range of skills within surgical day case nursing. As a Health Care Support Worker, you will be an integral part of our dedicated team, providing exceptional care to our patients.
Main duties of the job
Please see the main duties of the job description where a detailed description of main responsibilities of the role are specified.
Person specification
Qualifications Academic/ Craft/ Professional
* NVQ 2 or equivalent in care or working towards
* NVQ 3 in care
Further Training
* Basic Food hygiene
Experience
* Previous customer care experience and life skills
Knowledge Requirements
* Demonstrate clear and robust communication skills
* Must understand basic requirements for individualised personal care
Contractual Requirements
* Flexible Able to work unsociable hours
Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.
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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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