Healthcare Support Worker - Boston, United Kingdom - Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust

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Butterfly Hospice

Health Care Support Worker

Band 2

Shifts covering 24 hours a day, seven days a week

Earlies - 7am - 2.30pm

Late - 12pm - 7.30pm

Night

  • 7pm 7:30am
An exciting opportunity has opened for a Health Care Support worker role within the Butterfly Hospice in-patient unit, Boston.

The role involves a patient-centred and holistic approach to the care delivered.

This includes assisting to meet hygiene needs, monitoring symptoms, basic wound care, and have the opportunity to develop clinical skills working closely with the registered nurses.

IT skills are essential to this role.

  • Details attached to advert.


Assist and support in the delivery of prescribed interventions of health, therapy and social care in a caring and sensitive manner; recognising and reporting improvement, and achievement within the goals set by professional colleagues.

To actively report any deterioration in abilities or condition of patients they are asked to visit.

Monitor patient condition and report appropriately any change to senior staff.

To record own clinical observations within the patient record, reporting significant variances to senior clinicians.


Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.


LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives.

Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments.

Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

Please see job description attached for further details.

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