Riverbank Ward, the children's ward in paediatrics at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, has a permanent Child Health Care Support Worker vacancy with Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The post supports registered nurses in delivering delegated clinical and non-clinical care, from hygiene and feeding to mobilisation, isolation and end-of-life care. It is offered full or part time in a fast-paced ward with high patient turnover, and sponsorship is not available. Applicants need prior health care assistant experience in an acute, outpatient or day case setting.
What the job involves
- Support registered staff to deliver compassionate care in line with assessed needs and care plans
- Undertake delegated clinical care tasks, with supervision on hand
- Supervise junior staff and students day to day
- Help with washing, bathing, mouth care and other hygiene tasks
- Help with meals and feeding, recording food intake and escalating nutrition concerns
- Support elimination needs, recording outputs and collecting and testing urine and stool samples
- Move and reposition patients, and help with mobilisation safely
- Make beds, manage linen and stock, and clean examination rooms
- Admit and introduce patients to the ward, record and safekeep their property, and work across ward areas as required
- Assist with occupational, physiotherapy and recreational activities, and care for patients in isolation
- Chaperone staff, accompany patients to other departments, and support relatives and visitors
- Care for dying patients and prepare deceased patients for the mortuary
What’s required
Qualifications
- Basic education
- Willingness to achieve an NVQ
Experience
- Previous experience as a health care assistant in an acute hospital, outpatient or day case setting
Skills & knowledge
- Basic numeracy
- Good verbal and written communication
- Legible handwriting
- Maintaining high standards of patient care with a confidential manner
- Basic IT skills, including email and recording information on a computer
Other
- Occasional working across sites, including KTC
- Flexible attitude to routine and non-routine work
- Good interpersonal skills, with understanding of diversity and compassion
- Ability to work in a busy patient-facing environment
Nice to have
- Experience of working with children in a health care setting
- NVQ 2 or NVQ 3
- Recognised qualification in English
- Care Certificate
- Extended IT skills
- Knowledge of PAS, Bluespier and ICE requesting systems
- Venepuncture and cannulation competencies, or willingness to undertake them
- Ability to identify personal development needs and respond well to change
What’s offered
- Flexible working, under Timewise accreditation as a flex positive employer
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
