Health Care Support Worker - Frome

Health Care Support Worker – Permanent, Band 2 – Frome Ward

We have a number of full time opportunities available on Frome Ward which is an Acute General Surgical Ward. The ward will receive all of the emergency general surgical from A&E, ITU, clinics and repatriated patients. The successful candidate will be expected to provide a high standard of care, have excellent communication skills and be able to work effectively & to respond quickly within changing situations.

All new staff are supported by a 'buddy' and there are array of learning and training opportunities to develop new skills and experience. If you are up for a challenge please apply.

For further information please contact: Sister Sharon Handley – 01432 355444 Ext 2933 or emailSharon.handley@wvt.nhs.uk

As a Health Care Support Worker, you will be a hugely valuable support to our Nursing and Midwifery teams providing care to our patients. Every day will be different and you will work alongside the rest of the team carrying out a wide range of tasks and assisting with care to support the needs of the patients and their families.

Examples of what you may do as part of your role:

• Washing and dressing patients
• Serving meals and feeding patients
• Helping patients to move around
• Making beds
• Talking to patients and their families
• Monitoring patient condition
• Completing essential documentation

Skills and personal attributes needed:

• Caring and kind
• Cheerful and friendly
• Keen to support patients with their personal needs including washing and toileting
• Able to follow direct instructions
• Happy to work in a team but also able to use own initiative
• Have good listening and communication skills
• Be well organised

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view ‘supporting documents’ linked to this vacancy.

All NHS workers in England who have face to face contact with patients are encouraged to fully vaccinate against COVID 19. Please carefully consider this requirement when applying for this position.