Health Care Support Worker - Bath, United Kingdom - Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

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Bath, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit a Health Care Support Worker to join our amazing team in the Children's Ward due to us expanding our existing day surgery team.

Are you motivated and enjoy the challenges of helping to look after children and young people attending the ward/day surgery Do you want to be part of a proactive and dedicated ward/ day surgery team? Do you want to develop your skills in ward work and ward/ day surgery on the Children's Ward? If you answer yes, then this could be the job for you.

There may be the shifts on the Children's ward at times which would follow the usual ward shifts times giving you the opportunity to see how the ward works.

What tasks will you do?

As aHealth Care Support Worker you will help patients feel as comfortable and stress-free as possible.

You'll work under the guidance of a healthcare professional such as a nurse and your job will vary depending on the ward you are based, but overall a typical day as aHealth Care Support Worker in this role will involve:

Recording of observations
Serve meals/food post surgery
Contribute to patient assessments
Provide care for children, young people and families attending for day surgery
At times working on the Children's ward

At the RUH we're proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community.

No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment.

This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn.

We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support.

We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing.

We've even got a pool

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team.

In the meantime, find out more aboutliving and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about ourextensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we're providing healthcare fit for the future withthe landmark Dyson Cancer Centreand ourpassion for research.

Please see the Job Description attached for further information on the role. The Children's Ward has a Practice Facilitator team that will provide support and teaching for you on the ward.