Healthcare Assistant

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We are currently recruiting a Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker, full‑time 37.5 hours a week, to be part of our Stroke & General Rehab Inpatient Unit at Evesham Community Hospital. The candidate will work closely with the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to achieve specific rehabilitation goals. This will be a challenging and exciting opportunity and will enable the individual to develop new and existing skills.

• Assist with admitting patients to the ward and the care of their relatives
• Undertake clinical procedures following assessment of competencies by qualified senior members of staff
• Carry out delegated nursing care
• Provide safe and effective care
• Identify areas for improvement
• Assist patients with activities of daily living and support the therapy team with rehabilitation
• Assist patients to sit up or out for breakfast
• Serve and prepare meals/breakfast and drinks, help to assist patients when required. Complete appropriate paperwork e.g. food diaries and fluid balance charts
• Assist patients with morning personal care and dressing
• Mobilise patients using correct mobility equipment when required/liaise with physiotherapy team
• Liaise with nursing staff for information regarding observations, catheters, lab samples, blood sugar monitoring, dressings and further health checks
• Carry out weekly patient assessments including weighing, cleaning and checking mattress, catheter bag change when required
• Restock stores daily
• Assist patients with toileting
• Assist patients to bed/attach catheter night bags when required

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

• Vocational qualification level 3 or equivalent / level 2 qualification in care and willingness to undertake relevant level 3 qualification upon appointment or equivalent qualification or experience
• Care Certificate or expected to gain within 12 weeks of commencing in Trust
• Willing and able to undertake safety intervention training
• Experience of working in a care environment
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
• A positive attitude and ability to act on feedback
• Ability to challenge poor behaviour and role‑model good behaviour
• Enthusiastic and self‑motivated

• Nursing experience within the NHS / Hospital setting
• Experience of working in general medicine or rehabilitation
• Willingness to undertake further training
• Basic IT skills

• Empathetic caring nature
• Punctual and reliable
• Basic knowledge of nursing adults and/or training

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
Evesham Community Hospital, Waterside, Evesham, Worcestershire, WR11 1JT

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