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Clinical Healthcare Support Worker, Band 3

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Location
Salary
£24,937 - £26,598 (pro rata if part time)
Profession
Healthcare support worker
Grade
Band 3
Deadline
21 Jul 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
14 Jul 2025

Job overview

Are you passionate about delivering compassionate, patient-centred care? Do you want to make a real difference as part of a friendly and supportive team? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

We are currently recruiting for a Band 3 health care support worker to work in our large post anaesthetic care unit that provides a 24/7 service caring for a wide range of specialties both in day case and major surgery. We recover Elective & Emergency surgery and cover Emergency surgery care out of hours on this site. We work a range of differing shifts mainly 10 hours long 7 days a week.

We cover many disciplines from, Obstetrics, Vascular, Upper and lower GI, Robotic surgery, Gynaecology, Head & Neck, Trauma & Spinal surgery in Adults and Paediatrics. We also care for the level 2 high dependency surgical patients prior to admission to Critical Care. On average our patient throughput may be 40 – 60 patients a day and every day is different.

You will be joining a welcoming and motivated team, dedicated to supporting you throughout your development. Successful candidates will receive an induction programme covering all PACU specialties.

Main duties of the job

- To contribute to safe and timely patient transfer process within and out of theatres

- To greet surgical patients in the preoperative area, reviewing theatre paperwork and ensuring all documents are met for surgery

- To contribute to the recovery efficiency through active engagement in the movement and delivery of patients, equipment and stock as required

- To provide personal care to patients to help make them feel safe and cared for

- Ability to get on well with people at all levels and work effectively as a team member

- To communicate effectively, especially where patient ability to do so is compromised and there are barriers to understanding e.g. hearing difficulties, using tact, persuasion and re-assurance

- Occasionally the job holder may be exposed to distressing or emotional circumstances

- Take an active role in theatre/recovery decontamination in line with infection control policies

- Discretion and understanding of confidentiality and data protection

- Understand and adhere to Trust Policies and Procedures

- Provide advice and guidance within own sphere of knowledge to other team members

- Willingness to be involved in the development and training of new starters once competent and confident in the role of a HCSW within a theatre team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be admitting and checking patients preoperatively for their theatre visit and providing reassurance and dignity during their visit to theatre. This therefore needs excellent communication skills and observational skills. You will also be required to transfer patients around the theatre department and wards maintaining patient and staff safety at all times. Our aim is to make our patients experience outstanding.