Healthcare Support Worker

Job summary

Main duties of the job

Your role as a Healthcare Support Worker is to support the registered nurses with the preparation of clinics, to assist during diagnostic activities and chaperone during consultations. Communicating with the whole multidisciplinary team, patients and carers ensuring all protocols and standards are maintained.

• To support registered health care staff to deliver high quality, compassionate health care to patients in accordance with assessed needs.
• To support the clinical team with day-to-day supervision of junior staff and students.
• To have the ability to use your own initiative, independently and as part of a team, in order to accommodate changing demands on the wider clinical team.
• To support the department staff to provide a high quality service.
• To undertake a range of delegated clinical care duties, acting on own initiative where appropriate, supported by accessible supervision.

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 committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

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.