Nursing Support Worker - Gynaecology

Job overview

Are you a compassionate, caring and motivated individual looking to make a difference to the lives of women and families across our communities?

We are seeking an enthusiastic Nursing Support Worker to join our Women’s Health team on a part-time basis. This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced nursing and medical professionals, supporting the delivery of high-quality, person-centred care across our services.

As a Nursing Support Worker, you will play a vital role in supporting professional practitioners to provide high standards of holistic care. You will help create a welcoming, caring and safe environment for patients while providing both clinical and clerical support to ensure the smooth delivery of services.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will assist medical and nursing staff in all aspects of care and treatment within Women's Health units, helping to ensure that patients receive compassionate, dignified and effective care.

This role may require you to work across all sites within Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, providing flexibility and support where service needs require.

If you are committed to making a positive difference and would like to develop your career within a supportive healthcare environment, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Work as part of a multi-disciplinary/multi-agency team fostering good communication and working relations with colleagues from all disciplines often dealing with sensitive and emotive problems ensuring signposting to correct medical professional/clinic for ongoing management

Be proficient in a range of clinical duties  which require a basic level of knowledge e.g. recording and documenting client observations, ensuring accurate measurements and recording of blood pressure, weight, height, Body Mass Index, pregnancy testing, venepuncture, urine testing etc. reporting to qualified staff as necessary

Act as a chaperone and assist the Doctor / Nurse during clinical examinations / procedures, as appropriate and as requested, as necessary, ensuring correct labelling of all samples

Ensure the availability of patient notes at all clinics (base and satellite) ensuring tracer system is maintained and update

Be experienced in basic IT skills including Word Processing and undertake any relevant training, ensuring all ongoing training needs are met.

Input data onto Patient Information systems

Will ensure that all positive results from investigations are directed to the appropriate senior member of staff for action

Ensure that pathology/scan results is presented to medical/nursing staff for appropriate action and once action completed filed appropriately in the correct patient notes

Ensure that patient confidentiality is always maintained.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see ‘Welsh Language Guidance’ in the documents right at the bottom.

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.

Welsh language skills are desirable