Healthcare Support Worker - Urgent & Emergency Care

Job overview

We are now recruiting enthusiastic and motivated Health Care Support Workers to become part of our wider health care team, which provides high standards of care to our patients.

This vacancy is for positions within  the Emergency Department (ED)

You will attend a robust clinical induction, and comprehensive practical based programme, to gain the skills and knowledge to provide quality care to our patients. We will provide you with the tools to gain your care certificate if you have not already completed it.

We welcome applications for those seeking both full and part-time employment, the minimum contract we can offer is 24.5 hours per week.

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship with this role. Right to work must be in place.

Main duties of the job

The Health Care Support Worker works as part of the ward/department team under the supervision of registered nurse/midwife and:

• Participates in the delivery of patient care
• Contributes towards ward/department organisation
• Support registered nurses in the provision of a safe and caring environment
• Complete National Care Certificate

The post is advertised as a Band 3 role subject to the following:

• successfully completing the care certification within the six month probationary period of employment, during which you will be paid Band 2
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• providing a copy of your completed care certificate which has been reviewed during the recruitment process and determined as meeting the accepted standard

Upon successful completion (or accepted evidence) of the Care Certification and completion of the probationary period of employment, you will be promoted to NHS AFC Band 3

Failure to complete the Care Certification within this timeframe may result in termination of employment

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job description and person specification for the full job details. This is available to download at any time.