Clinical Support Worker

At South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, Our Vision is clear. We want to provide the best possible healthcare to our population. This means using our resources well and making sure our care is of the highest standard possible.

Competent Clinical Support Workers are essential to assist us with managing the patient flow through our organisation, through the hospitals, and onwards into the local community and other services. This is one of a number of initiatives aimed to make the patient’s journey through our services as good as it can be.

We are now recruiting for a community based Clinical Support Worker to join our nursing team based at Placed Based Team Southam, working from the clinic in Pendicke Street, Southam. This is a fantastic opportunity which will provide you with the foundations of a career route within the healthcare industry.

This is a predominantly a rural post covering the villages surrounding Southam.

Your role will be to support and assist healthcare professionals such as community nurses, GP’s and other integrated healthcare professionals in the delivery of quality patient care and the general wellbeing and comfort of patients within their own homes, and residential homes, preventing hospital admissions being one of our priority roles. You will learn a range of skills from supporting and helping your patients with their individual needs, practical clinical observations to more specialised procedures, such as wound care, equipment provision, palliative care and monitoring of our frail elderly caseload.

This role is primarily lone working, with support from senior colleagues.

You must be a car owner/driver as you will be travelling across the catchment area.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Professional Values

To act in a professional manner and ensure Trust standards are maintained and monitored to improve the quality of care to all who come into contact with the services provided by South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust.

Uphold the Trust values and standards at all times.

Ensure records and documentation are maintained, kept confidential and meets Trust standards in line with the Data Protection Act.

Demonstrates a positive and enthusiastic approach to their work in order to maintain high morale and motivation within the team.

Promoting a professional and positive working environment.

To report any accidents or incidents as described by the Trust’s policy and procedures ensuring an open and transparent culture.

To take reasonable care of the health and safety of themselves and of other person.

To adhere to the Trust’s dress code policy, maintaining a smart appearance at all times.

To assist other wards, departments and teams within the Trust as and when required by service needs.

To ensure children and adults are protected from abuse and avoidable harm and report any safeguarding concerns in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.

Clinical Practice

To accurately and promptly carry out the instructions of the registered professional who is professionally accountable for the delivery of care.

To assist in the supervision of other healthcare and support staff as directed.

To carry out duties as specified within the Trust’s approved core task list for Clinical Support Workers/Healthcare Assistant without direct supervision.

To report to the registered professional any patient who gives cause for concern or any observed changes in the client or patient’s condition.

Provide and deliver a high standard of individualised care under the direction but not direct supervision of the registered professional.

To report all care that has been given to patients within the team to a registered professional.

To accurately document all care delivered to patients, countersigned by a registered professional, maintaining confidentiality at all times.

To assist in the preparation of patients for treatment, inves