Clinical Support Worker

The Clinical Support Worker - Bank employees are on a zero hours contract giving the flexibility for staff to work the shifts around their own personal commitments. We have opportunities across our main hospital sites - Warwick, Stratford and Leamington Rehabilitation Hospital.

A minimum of 6 months care experience is essential. Full training will be provided, you will need to be reliable, enthusiastic and self-motivated individual. You must possess excellent communication skills and be extremely adaptable to changing situations. It is essential that you are punctual and work well independently and within a team environment, as well as working under Trust Policies.

Clinical Support Worker's spend their careers helping doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. These positions are hands-on and this means being in constant contact with sick or injured people throughout the working day. Under the supervision and direction of qualified nursing staff, healthcare assistants carry out a wide range of duties to care for, support, and provide information to patients and their families.

**Tasks you may be asked to undertake include**:
Looking after the physical comfort of patients, for example providing and supporting a patient with personal care such as washing, dressing and toileting also assisting with eating and drinking

Keeping departments clean and tidy, for example cleaning equipment and making and changing beds

Taking and recording basic observations such as blood pressure and temperature

There will be an element of documentation involved and CSW’s are required to keep the Nurse or Senior Carer informed about any changes or concerns about patients.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire 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.

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, 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.

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

To carry out duties as specified within the Trust’s approved core task list for Clinical Support Workers/Health Care Assistants.

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 and 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, investigations or procedures as directed by the registered professional.

To keep the clinical area clean and tidy, maintaining a safe environment.

To adhere to Trust infection control procedures, demonstrating an understanding of cross infection.

To chaperone or escort patients as needed under the direction of the registered professional.

To support relatives demonstrating compassion and empathy under the guidance of a registered professional.

To assist with the discharge process for patients as directed by the registered professional.

Helping to attend to patients hygiene needs

Performing and recording basic observations of patients including temperature, pulse, blood pressure, height and weight recordings

Assisting with patient drinks and meals

Toileting patients

Handling and moving patients

Escorting patients to other areas.

Emptying and safe disposal of linen and ‘sharps’ items

Undertaking reception duties.

Preparing notes

Filing in patient’s notes.

Maintaining up to date information on the computer system.

Requesting and obtaining patient records and x-rays.

Making outpatient appointments.

Provide clerical support for the team