Healthcare Support Worker

Job summary

Main duties of the job

Your delegated daily duties will be varied but may include:

• Assist with the maintenance of patient hygiene, including washing bathing and mouth care.
• Assist with serving meals and feeding of patients, including reporting patients intake and recording on charts as appropriate.
• Assist with patients elimination needs, including recording outputs where appropriate and collecting and testing urine and stool samples.
• Supporting registered staff by undertaking delegated clinical tasks.
• Assisting with the recording and safe keeping of patients property/valuables.
• Moving and repositioning of patients.
• Dressing/undressing of patients.
• Making of occupied and unoccupied beds, tying up of dirty linen bags and despatching to laundry and replenishing of linen and stock cupboards.
• Cleaning and tidying examination rooms/clinic areas.
• Assist with patients mobilisation, ensuring safe environment and using appropriate techniques.

Job responsibilities

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.