Healthcare Assistant A&E, WRH

Job summary

Are you looking for a career opportunity where you can make a real difference? This is an exciting time to join the Emergency Department Team in Worcester as we are currently planning for our move to a new purpose built building.

We are looking to recruit enthusiastic Healthcare Assistants (HCAs) to join our team, supporting the clinical team with delivering a high standard of care for any patient that attends the department.

The successful applicant should be prepared to work either 0700 - 1930 and 1900 - 0730 shifts. Hours are given on a rota basis up to 3 months in advance.

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*** Please note we do not offer Certificates of Sponsorships for this role ***

Main duties of the job

• To assist with the maintenance of patient hygiene.
• Assist with feeding patients.
• Assist with patients' elimination needs
• Additional aspects of care
• Excellent empathy and communication is required
• Maintenance and cleaning of department equipment and surroundings

Job responsibilities

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people
• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
• Best use of resources
• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.