Health Care Support Worker

1 month ago

Gainsborough, United Kingdom Lincolnshire Community Health Service NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

This job vacancy is for a health care support worker to work in a busy Surgical Day Theatre and Outpatient department. Within your role, you will be working as part of a small multi skilled team.

You will work under the direction of our trained practitioners, but will be required to use your own initiative when leading a specialised outpatient clinic.

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Main duties of the job

This position involves working alongside the departments qualified practitioners to deliver holistic care to the patients within our outpatient and day surgery departments.

You will be required to undertake basic observations of our patients prior to their outpatient appointments, this may include taking a patients height, weight, blood pressure and pulse. You will manage the outpatient clinic, ensuring that patients are seen in a timely manner and are kept up to date with the flow of clinic times. You will be expected to act as chaperone for the patient and consultant and assist with physical examinations and procedures, relating to the speciality of the clinic. It will be your responsibility to ensure that you keep accurate records of all you do for the patient.

As pert of your role, it will be expected that you will train up in phlebotomy and deliver this services within 4 months of starting the post. All training will be provided and all competencies signed off in house.

You will work within the theatre department assisting staff nurses in the unit to pre assess patients to ensure they are suitable to have surgery within this department. On the day of the patient's surgery you will assist in preparing them for theatre and their aftercare on the unit before their discharge home. You will also assist the clinical team with follow up appointments for our patients post surgery.

About us

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.

At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS' workforce.

LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an 'earn while you learn' apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out more

Job description

Job responsibilities

To work under supervision and autonomously to deliver holist care to patients within the outpatients and day theatres unit

Person Specification

Experience or knowledge of health care support working role

Essential

maths and English

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