Senior Healthcare Support Worker

5 months ago


Bristol, United Kingdom University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you a qualified and experienced Health Care Support Worker? Are you able to demonstrate compassion, enthusiasm and confidence? Can you provide the highest standard of care, prioritising work under pressure? Do you have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written?

If yes, this may be the job for you. This is your opportunity to join us on our journey and become a part of our talented and passionate team.

Working as a Health Care Support Worker (HCSW) at University Hospital Bristol and Weston is an immensely rewarding job. A job in which your care can make makes a real difference to patients’ lives. We are looking for enthusiastic, compassionate, and hard-working individuals that also believe in our Trust Values: Supportive, Respectful, Innovative & Collaborative. Previous experience is not essential, as we offer training

We currently have Band 3 Senior Health Care Support Worker vacancies in our Paediatric Theatres Department. Previous theatre experience isn’t essential due to our in depth orientation programme.

Our Children’s Hospital Theatre team cover multiple specialities including Cardiac, Neurosurgery, Plastics, Burns, Orthopaedics and Trauma services, as well as being the South west’s regional major trauma centre.

We require everyone to be fully flexible across all shift patterns, including weekdays, weekends, nights and bank holidays

Our in house education team support our newly appointed staff with a tailor made orientation programme, developed by the department to meet the needs of any staff member regardless of previous experience. The education team’s expertise allows a comprehensive plan of learning and continuous assessment. The team work both clinically and non-clinically within the department, offering hands on support and teaching.

There are opportunities for career progression with the Operating Department Practitioner BSC Apprenticeship and the Registered Nursing degree apprenticeships (RNDA’s).

We are looking for highly motivated and flexible individuals to join our busy team. The role will include supporting the registered practitioners and wider multidisciplinary team during the perioperative journey. You will have good communication skills, deliver a high standard of care to our patients and have the ability to prioritise tasks whilst working under pressure.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England.

Shift Patterns

For a full time member of staff the shift pattern would be across the 7 day week with 4 shifts / week consisting of x3 earlies 0745 - 1800 and x1 late 12:00 - 21:30 and then an 'on call' from 21:30 - 0745 the following day.

This is 37.5 hours plus any additional hours based on emergency workload during the on call period

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.



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