Healthcare Support Worker

7 days ago

Oldham, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
We require enthusiastic and highly motivated individuals to play an important role dedicated to ensuring excellent standards of care to our patients within the intermediate care setting.

Working within a team of highly skilled and motivated staff where patient focus is our priority. You will work with the Multi-Disciplinary Team to assist registered nurses and therapists in a range of patient care activities, assisting patients with activities of living, to promote faster recovery from illness and maximise independent living. You will also provide basic patient care as directed by registered staff.

**Main duties of the job**:
We strive to make patient, family and carer experience as good as possible. The job is both exciting and challenging where team working is essential and initiative is paramount. Excellent communication, confidence and compassion are essential.

You will be provided with the training required to work safely with people and the opportunity to develop personally to shape your future. These include for example mandatory training, basic life support, moving and handling, infection prevention and control, fire, health and safety, basic food hygiene, communication skills, recording vital signs, confidentiality, ward etiquette and venepuncture.

**Working for our organisation**:
Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world’s first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts. Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital. As a designated major trauma unit for Greater Manchester and one of only three vascular centres in Greater Manchester, Oldham is a specialist hospital for acute surgery and provides state-of-the-art onsite pathology services to the North West.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Face to face**:
**Essential criteria**:

- NVQ Level 2 Health & Social Care or prepared to work towards
- Previously worked in a caring environment
- The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English.
- Good communication skills (written & verbal)
- Experience of promoting care formally / informally
- Good customer service skills
- Ability to work flexibly to meet the demands of the service

**Desirable criteria**:

- Willingness to learn new skills.

**COVID-19 Vaccination Information**
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