Healthcare Support Worker

We are a 16 bedded paediatric ward caring for patients from 0-18years with both short term and long term illness and conditions. We care for both medical and surgical patients as well as those with mental health illnesses.

You must be motivated and committed to the delivery of high quality care, and have the ability to communicate and work effectively with children of all ages and their families. You will be working within a multidisciplinary team to provide support to the children and families, ideally you will have previous experience working with children and /or previous experience in a health care setting.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us.

Our Health Care Assistants work as part of the multi-professional team caring for patients aged from 0-16 years and their parents/carers.

Our Health Care Assistants;

• Promote and support registered staff with the physical health, comfort and wellbeing of babies/children/young people, including recording vital signs once competency completed.
• Support parents/carers to provide babies, children and young people with personal care, where and when required ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained all times
• To provide support and supervision for patients admitted with Eating disorders and Mental Health needs, working alongside the registered staff to care for these patients recognising their individual needs which includes patients requiring mealtime support or supervision
• Escort patients from the ward to other departments within the hospital
• Keep the ward clean and tidy and support with keeping the ward well stocked

Closing Date: 1 January 2025

Interview Date: 14 January 2025

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In Return We Will Offer

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts About Our Trust

• Our hospitals see more than 4,000 outpatients daily
• We see more Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients than any other Trust – over 3,300 per week
• An average 860 patients are seen in A&E every day – 6th largest in the country
• Our hospitals admit more than 220 emergency patients daily.
• We carry out more planned surgical operations than any other Trust in England with almost 50,000 operations taking place in our 52 operating theatres
• We are one of only 5 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres
• We carry out more than 300 elective procedures each working day

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lauren Cooper Job title: Senior Sister Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01332 786969