Healthcare Support Worker

Job overview

As a Clinical Healthcare Support Worker you will be a core member of the team delivering personal care, both clinical and non-clinical, to patients. You’ll also be key in supporting patients with their own self-care and independence. To assist in patient care and other ward/department related duties under the supervision of the trained nurse.

This is a busy role so you will be working together with your team to balance different tasks that often change.

Main duties of the job

Your daily duties will be varied to include:  - blood pressure monitoring - oxygen saturation levels - body temperature - pulse rate and respiration rate - glucose monitoring,  - collection and testing of urine, faecal and sputum samples - wound swabs - removal of catheters - venepuncture - recording your actions accurately in patient note

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Our hospital is a 24 hour service as our patients need care and attention around the clock, therefore we work on a shift basis and you are likely to be given early, late, night shifts or long days , so everyone gets involved working different shifts to ensure our patients receive the very best care.

The skills we are looking for:

• You need to be able to understand and communicate both verbally and in writing in English
• You don’t need any formal qualifications in maths but you will need to have numerical and analytic skills to do patient observations
• You will need to have a customer focused approach which is essential to providing patients with the best possible experience
• You will need to be able to use IT systems and databases
• You will have the skill to focus on the details with the ability to spot problems. You will know when you are able to correct or when to escalate.