This bank healthcare support worker post sits at Savernake Hospital, with HCRG Care Group as the employer and shifts booked by the worker through self-booking. The core of the work is hands-on patient care that supports comfort, recovery, independence and dignity, with a focus on infection control. Shifts can be requested up to six weeks ahead, and the post offers experience across clinical settings, including dressing and fracture clinics. Applicants need the Care Certificate or a commitment to achieve it within an agreed timeframe.
What the job involves
- Deliver hands-on care that improves patient comfort, wellbeing and recovery
- Support patients to maintain their independence and dignity
- Build relationships with patients and their families during key moments of care
- Help keep the care environment safe and clean through infection control
- Work as a valued member of a multidisciplinary healthcare team
- Gain experience across clinical settings, including dressing and fracture clinics
- Develop healthcare skills alongside experienced professionals
- Deliver compassionate, high-quality patient care
What's required
Qualifications
- Good general education
- Care Certificate, or willingness to achieve it within an agreed timeframe
Experience
- Working under supervision and supporting colleagues in a team
- Delivering patient-centred care
Skills & knowledge
- Working effectively in a multidisciplinary team and recognising own limitations
- Good typing, data entry, organisational and time management skills
- Safe patient moving and handling and delegated nursing or therapy tasks after training
- Self-motivated, proactive and committed to high standards of care
Checks & eligibility
- Criminal records disclosure and vetting checks
Nice to have
- Experience in community healthcare, the NHS or an acute/urgent care setting
- Basic wound care knowledge and skills
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle during working hours
What's offered
- Self-booked shifts, with preferred shifts or days off requestable up to six weeks in advance
- Wagestream access to track earnings and access pay as it is earned
- 24/7 wellbeing service, including counselling, legal and financial advice and career coaching
- Free statutory and mandatory training, plus wider learning and development
- Access to Strive for Better Networks
- Opportunities to gain experience across different services and settings
- Local and national awards, and engagement with senior leaders through Ask Our Executives events
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
