Health Care Support Worker - Leominster

Job overview

Leominster Community Hospital are looking to recruit a Health Care Support Worker.

You will be required to work a rotational shift system to include working weekends and bank holidays attracting unsocial hours percentage.

We work within a Multidisciplinary Team promoting independence and patient centred care, implementing realistic individualised goals to allow proactive discharge planning.

For further information please contact Community Hospital Sister Bev Johns, on Tel: 01568 617300 or email [email protected]

Main duties of the job

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

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

A Full time position are available, and we are open to discuss flexible working arrangements. This opportunity is available for candidates who have the right to work in the UK. Applications from underrepresented groups including LGBT+, Ethnic Minority or disabled people are particularly welcome.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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