Perioperative Care Support Worker

Job overview

The role will involve supporting with the care of patients during their peri-operative journey at the Princess of Wales hospital. Theatre staff have an important role in making sure patients feel as calm and comfortable as possible. If you are passionate about patient care and looking to make a difference in a dynamic care environment, this could be the post for you.

As well as direct patient care, you will be involved with preparing and checking equipment, carrying out safety checks, ensuring clinical areas and equipment are cleaned and restocked, and helping to collect and return patients to the ward areas.

Main duties of the job

• Communicate with other health professionals to perform delegated duties to ensure a safe service. •    Participate in Patient Safety steps for example briefs, time out, debriefs. •    Undertake induction and competency-based programmes to perform delegated supervised duties. •    Follow policies/procedures/ guidelines/protocols/safe systems of work. •    Only working within delegated duties under supervision of registered staff / following schedules of work. •    Alerting registered staff to any missing or incomplete documentation/ relevant patient safety information when performing patient checks. •    Identifying whether items are sterile /disinfected and reporting compliance to standards. •    Performing in conjunction with registered staff swab, needle, instrument and item counts alerting registered staff of any inconsistencies. •    Report to registered staff deviations or trends from baseline basic physiological monitoring of patients. •    Reporting faulty equipment and any alert hazard alarms on equipment to registered staff. •    Instigate basic resuscitation after sending for help. •    Follow schedules of work.

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.