Perioperative Care Support Worker

We have an opportunity for a motivated individual to join our busy team as part of the Theatres service in the Prices of Wales Hospital supporting with the care of patients during their peri‑operative journey. The successful candidate will provide support to registered staff, patients, and colleagues during their peri‑operative journey.

Responsibilities

• Communicate with a range of patients with differing needs, including overcoming any barriers to understanding such as deafness or language difficulties.
• Provide support to patients, referring any essential information, questions or concerns to registered professionals.
• 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.
• Pass information to other healthcare staff to ensure patient safety and continuity of care.
• Undertake induction and competency‑based programmes to perform delegated supervised duties.
• Complete statutory and mandatory training.
• Follow policies, procedures, guidelines, protocols of work.
• Only work within delegated duties under supervision of registered staff or following schedules of work.
• Alert registered staff to any missing or incomplete documentation or relevant patient safety information when performing patient checks.
• Identify whether items are sterile or disinfected and report compliance to standards.
• Perform, in conjunction with registered staff, swab, needle, instrument and item counts and alert registered staff of any inconsistencies.
• Report to registered staff deviations or trends from baseline basic physiological monitoring of patients.
• Report faulty equipment and any alert hazard alarms on equipment.

Qualifications & Additional Requirements

• Welsh language skills are desirable. Speaking and listening ability at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above is required; fluency is not essential.
• Applicants who are not UK or Republic of Ireland nationals will require sponsorship to obtain a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa unless they already hold permission to work via another route. Prospective applicants should self‑assess their eligibility for sponsorship using the UK Government\’s \”Work in the UK\” guidance.
• All candidates must be willing to undergo relevant checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service check and, where required, Professional Registration verification.

Equality and Diversity

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome applications from individuals within protected groups as outlined in the Equality Act 2010, including but not limited to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity, and marriage and civil partnership. We also warmly welcome applications from members of the Armed Forces community.

Other Information

We are a Living Wage Employer. We reserve the right to close a vacancy early or withdraw an advertisement to accommodate the redeployment of internal staff into suitable roles.