Personal Health Care Support Worker

Job overview

Hello, my name is Erica Apps, and I am the Lead Nurse for the Pain Speciality at the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust.

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit a Band 2 Personal Healthcare Support Worker in our Specialist Pain Services.  The  Pain Service is a specialist teams working with people with complex chronic pain.  These roles are unique and will be an interesting career development for people at any point in their working lives. Based  in Bernard Ireland House (E2) at the RUH this includes accommodation for the patients accessing specialist pain rehabilitation programmes.  The role involves working evenings, nights & weekends to support the patients during their specialist pain rehabilitation.

We are a very professional and supportive team. We understand the pressures that we all face, and we will work together to provide outstanding care to all our patients.

I would very much welcome you for an informal visit so you can meet the team. I am happy to talk through the role in more detail and answer any questions you may have. Please do contact me either by telephone (01225 821996) or by email ([email protected]) if this is something that you would like to do.

Main duties of the job

Your responsibilities will include supporting our patients with personal care and activities of daily living whilst also maintaining running of the accommodation and clinic/therapy rooms. You will be supporting patients in really making a difference to their independence in the presence of pain & distress which is challenging for many of our patients on a day to day basis. You will help provide emotional support to both our patients and the people that are close to them, assist in providing management behaviour techniques and deliver the best care possible to our patients who have significant pain and pain associated disabilities

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To deliver high quality care in line with the Pain Speciality ethos.

To assist patients with significant physical pain disability using manual handling techniques as required by Trust policy.

To deliver this care under the guidance of the Interdisciplinary team in the Pain Speciality.

To recognise and report to the clinical team any changes to patients behaviour/ condition

To maintain accurate records using the trust computer systems.