Perioperative Care Support Worker

This post is fixed term for 12 months to cover the needs of the service. 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.

As well as direct patient care, you will be involved with preparing and checking equipment, carrying out safety checks, ensuring clinical areas and equipment are cleaned and restocked, and helping to collect and return patients to the ward areas. You should be a diligent, compassionate individual who is a team player and have good communication and organisation skills.

• Communicate with a range of patients with differing needs, including overcoming any barriers to understanding such as deafness / language difficulties.
• Provide support to patients referring any essential information/questions/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/following schedules of work.
• Alert registered staff to any missing or incomplete documentation/relevant patient safety information when performing patient checks.
• Identify whether items are sterile/disinfected and report compliance to standards.
• Perform in conjunction with registered staff swab, needle, instrument and item counts alerting registered staff of any inconsistencies.
• Report to registered staff deviations or trends from baseline basic physiological monitoring of patients.
• Reporting faulty equipment and any alert hazard alarms on equipment.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf. We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only the lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn’t need to have skills in Welsh, we’ll consider it an advantage when short‑listing and selecting candidates. This is not fluency, just speaking & listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.

For more information, see Welsh Language Guidance in the documents right at the bottom. You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Qualifications/Knowledge:

• Vocational qualification Level 2 or above
• IT literate
• Knowledge of personal care and related procedures

Experience:

• Worked in health or social care sector or experience of delivering care
• Previous experience of working in the NHS Theatre/wards/critical care

Aptitude and Abilities:

• Awareness of health and safety
• Ability to follow policies and procedures
• Awareness of limitations of practice
• Working within a team
• Welsh language speaking/listening skills at Level 3 or above

Values:

• Knowledge of the NHS Wales values
• Integrating improvement into everyday working

Other:

• Flexible approach to the service
• Ability to work shifts/nights/out of hours cover
• Physically fit to undertake the demand of the role
• Able to travel to other hospitals if required

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.