Senior Health Care Support Worker

We are looking for compassionate and motivated individuals who are passionate about delivering high-quality, person-centred care in a hospital setting. The role involves undertaking a range of delegated clinical tasks, such as:

• Assisting with personal care and mobility
• Supporting patients\’ nutritional and hydration needs
• Undertaking a limited range of delegated duties (e.g. taking blood pressure, recording ECG, MRSA screening)
• Simple wound dressings

Strong teamworking and communication skills are essential to ensure the comfort, wellbeing, and safety of our patients.

*PLEASE NOTE – WE ARE UNABLE TO PROVIDE SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE*

As part of the recruitment process for this post, candidates will be required to complete an online literacy and numeracy test and only if they pass this, will they be invited to a formal interview.

Main duties of the job

St. Bartholomew\’s Hospital is looking to recruit a Healthcare Support Worker (HCA) Band 3 who will work in Outpatients. The post is open to experienced Healthcare Support Workers as well as new to care. You will receive support to complete the Band 3 competencies and progress into a Band 3 role within 6 months upon successful completion of all required competencies; until then, you will be placed at a Band 2 salary.

The outpatient team moved to a brand-new purpose-built outpatient department designed to meet specific outpatient requirements for patients and staff. The clinics are based mainly around cardiology, specialist cardiology, oncology, endocrine and diabetes. The clinics are operated by a team of specialist doctors, Clinical Nurse Specialists, physiotherapists, dieticians, pharmacists, and clinical psychologists. Successful candidates will be professionally and clinically supported within the larger outpatient nursing team.

To arrange an informal visit or to discuss this post further please contact Sister Diane Campbell / Ariadne Agapito / Sneha Francis or Charge Nurse Armando Robles on 020 3465 7392.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain\’s leading healthcare providers. The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world‑class clinical reputation. We aim to be a high‑performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to patients in east London and beyond.

Person Specification

Experience

• Demonstrable experience of working in a clinical healthcare setting.
• Experience of dealing with the public.

Skills

• Evidence of providing high quality care
• To be aware of incident reporting systems and escalation processes
• Evidence of effective interpersonal skills
• Evidence of good organisational skills
• Self-motivated to work under minimal direct supervision.
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Good communication skills, written and verbal.
• Basic keyboard/ computer skills (e.g. ability to enter patient data onto computer records).
• Contributes to updating patient records,
• To always protect and maintain patient confidentiality and follow information governance policies and procedures.
• Prepared to undertake further training to develop the necessary competencies and skills.
• Depending on specific service arrangements, to supervise and train more junior staff.

Knowledge

• Awareness of health and safety at work. e.g: manual handling skills, infection control measures.
• Ability to collect and exchange factual information and data to the multidisciplinary team and ensure data accuracy.

Qualifications

• Completion of Care Certificate or equivalent.
• Basic literacy and numeracy skills (English and Math\’s GCSEs or equivalent.)
• Evidence of ongoing personal development.
• Level 2 support worker Apprenticeship

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.