Health Care Support Worker - Pain Speciality

Job overview

Hello, my name is Erica Apps, and I am the Lead Nurse for the Pain Speciality at the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust.

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit a Band 3 Health Care Support Worker in our Specialist Pain Services. The Pain Service is a specialist team working with people with complex chronic pain.

This role is unique and will be an interesting career development for people at any point in their working lives. The role involves working evenings, nights and weekends to support the patients during their specialist pain rehabilitation.

You will be based in Bernard Ireland House (E2) at the RUH within this department we have accommodation for the patients accessing the specialist pain rehabilitation programmes.

We are a professional and supportive team. We understand the pressures that we all face, and we work together to provide outstanding care to all our patients.

If you are interested in this role and would like further information, I would be very happy to welcome you for an informal visit. You can meet the team and talk through the role in more detail and I will answer any questions you may have.

To arrange this please contact me either by telephone: 01225 821996 or by email: ericaapps@nhs.net if this is something that you would like to do

Main duties of the job

Your responsibilities will include supporting our patients with personal care and activities of daily living whilst also maintaining running of the accommodation and clinic/therapy rooms.

You will be supporting patients and will be making a difference to their independence in the presence of pain and distress which is challenging for many of our patients on a day to day basis.

You will help provide emotional support to both our patients and the people that are close to them, assist in providing management behaviour techniques and deliver the best care possible to our patients who have significant pain and pain associated disabilities

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To deliver high quality care in line with the Pain Speciality ethos.

To assist patients with significant physical pain disability using manual handling techniques as required by Trust policy.

To deliver this care under the guidance of the Interdisciplinary team in the Pain Speciality.

To recognise and report to the clinical team any changes to patients behaviour/ condition

To maintain accurate records using the trust computer systems.

Applicant requirements

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.