Ward Assistant

4 days ago

Stroud, United Kingdom Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are looking for individuals with or without experience working in healthcare, to join the NHS family in helping people from your local community. We are looking for Ward Assistants to join the team at Stroud General Hospital on Jubilee Ward.

No experience? No problem. We will teach you everything you need to know. To us, it is more important that you are a caring and kind person with a genuine desire to help and support patients and their families. If this sounds like you, then you already have the skills that make a great Ward Assistant.

As a Ward Assistant, you will be a hugely valuable support to our Nursing and Facilities teams providing support to ward care, the catering team and the housekeeping team.

Examples of what you may do as part of your role
- Contributing to the cleanliness of the ward
- making beds
- tidying rooms
- re-stocking supplies
- Assisting with food and drink preparation
- refilling water jugs
- setting tables
- clearing plates and cutlery
- Recreational support
- providing encouragement for patients
- helping patients settle in
- Administration
- Answer the door for visitors
- Answering the telephone

Skills and personal attributes needed
- Caring and kind
- Cheerful and friendly
- Able to follow instructions
- Happy to work in a team but also able to use own initiative
- Have good listening and communication skills

What we Offer
- Strong team ethos
- Learning and development opportunities
- NHS salary structure and pension
- 27 days holiday plus days off for bank holidays worked (pro rata)
- Health service discounts and online benefits
- Wide range of LGBTI+ initiatives
- Health and wellbeing support
- Disability Confident Reasonable adjustments
- Maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Childcare vouchers

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, we are supportive of the people we care for in the community and aim to provide a fully responsive service to everyone who needs it. This is the same approach we take for our employees. We look to value the skills and experiences of those we work with, whether they are service users, carers, families or those looking to work with us.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is part of the NHS. We treat NHS patients according to NHS principles and standards. The difference is the Trust is accountable to local people, rather than to Government, and so we are able to work closely with our community to develop services in the way that best suits the needs of local people.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

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