Healthcare Support Worker

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for an  HCA to join The Planned Care Unit at the Royal Cornwall Hospital. The applicant must have excellent communication skills and a willingness to learn and undertake new skills.

If you are looking for an exciting challenge and want to be part of a great innovative team , then why not join Planned Care Unit . We are a 16 bedded unit specialising in  elective upper and lower GI surgery, we also care for patients having short stay emergency surgery. We also care for patients having urology surgery and trauma patients.

We are seeking applications who have the ability and determination to learn and to gain new skills /competencies and who are motivated to develop the highest standards of care and  committed to continuous improvement and development. We have Practice educators in place to provide support and guidance to all our staff  for training and development.

This is a full time  post role for 37.5  hrs per week  and does include include nights and weekends.

Main duties of the job

To contribute to the optimum delivery of care for all patients by assisting all healthcare and clinical staff to meet the needs for this group of patients.

To ensure that privacy and dignity is respected at all times.

To have a good understanding of the complex needs of this group of patients.

To assist the team in providing an excellent service at all times by ensuring a good knowledge of the patient and service requirements.

To perform necessary tests for our patients, to include, ECG, bloods, and any other relevant clinical skill.

To establish a rapport with the patient and relatives and an awareness of the individual patient needs, ensuring these are communicated to the Registered nurse.

To have full understanding of the impact of the patient’s condition on their hygiene, nutritional and mobility abilities and needs.

To assist patients, where necessary by the use of appropriate aids/appliance, to achieve physical comfort. This will involve the safe moving and handling of patients to varying degrees dependant on their condition and care needs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

PLEASE NOTE: To view the full Job Description and Person Specification, please click the supporting document on the right-hand side

To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following:

• Identity Checks
• Professional registration and qualification checks
• Employment history and reference checks
• Work health assessments
• Criminal record check standards
• Right to work checks

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Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about any flexible working arrangements you would prefer or require. While we may not be able to fully accommodate all requests, such requests will not be referenced during the interview scoring process, and we will fully consider and try to accommodate them for successful applicants.

We reserve the right to close this advert early, or when the allocated number of applications has been reached. Please submit your application at the earliest opportunity.