Healthcare Support Worker in Elderly

We are looking for individuals with or without experience to work in healthcare, to join the NHS family helping people from your local community. Healthcare Support Worker (HCSW) opportunities are available at Airedale Hospital in medical and surgical areas. We also have positions at Castleberg Hospital.

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 Health Care Support Worker.

Right from the time you join us, you will have access to learning, development and training opportunities. As you progress in your NHS career you will acquire the knowledge, skills and confidence you need to provide safe and compassionate patient care.

The Healthcare Support Worker role can also lead to a range of career opportunities. With the right support, those who want to can undertake the necessary training to become our future nurses, nursing associates and midwives.

As a Health Care Support Worker, you will be a hugely valuable support to our Nursing and Midwifery teams providing care to our patients. Every day will be different, and you will work alongside the rest of the team carrying out a wide range of tasks and assisting with care to support the needs of the patients and their families.

Examples of what you may do as part of your role
- Washing and dressing patients who need help
- Serving meals and assisting patients to eat
- Helping patients to move around
- Making beds
- Talking to patients and their families
- Monitoring patient conditions

Approximate shift patterns

Days, nights, weekends & bank holidays. 7.5 hour & 11.5 hour shifts.

Early 07.30 to 15.30

Late 12.00 to 20.00

Long Day 07.30 to 20.00

Night 19.30 to 08.00.

What we Offer

Range of opportunities for flexible working
- Strong team ethos
- NHS salary structure & generous pension
- 27 days holiday plus days off for bank holidays worked
- Enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
- Maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Childcare vouchers
- Wide range of LGBTI+ initiatives
- Health service discounts and online benefits
- Health and wellbeing support
- Discounts on public transport
- Disability Confident Reasonable adjustments
- Nightingales on site nursery

Full time and part time positions are available, and we are open to discuss flexible working arrangements.

Skills and personal attributes needed
- Caring and kind
- Cheerful and friendly
- Keen to support patients with their personal needs including using the toilet
- Able to follow direct instructions
- Happy to work in a team but also able to use own initiative
- Have good listening and communication skills
- Be well organised

Support

We offer an initial two-week induction and training programme for HCSW’s. This includes learning about the Hospital and all the core skills you will need such as preventing infection and how to provide direct care. You will have some learning with registered nurses and other days specifically for HCSW. For anyone new to care, we then offer two weeks support working alongside an experienced HCSW in clinical practice, learning the role before being included in the staffing numbers. We will support you to achieve a Care Certificate during your first few months if you do not already have one. The care certificate takes you through 15 different standards such as patient confidentiality and nutrition and hydration. Anyone who wishes to progress may be supported to achieve a Health and Social Care qualification, in partnership with Keighley College on our apprenticeship programme.

There are further development opportunities if you are interested, with career pathways to become a Nursing Associate and Registered Nurse.