We are looking for Band 3Health Care Support Workers to work in our PICU service. Colne Ward /PICU is a 8 bedded male ward based at the Riverside Centre, in Hillingdon. There's good link to transportation. If you are interested we would love to receive your application!
Do you have a passion for healthcare? Are you caring, compassionate and looking for a new challenge?
Whether you are experienced in providing excellent patient care or just starting out, we’ll have a role for you.
Health Care Support Workers work closely with people who use our Services, their families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team supporting registered healthcare professionals in providing patient clinical care, including monitoring, observing, and ensuring personal hygiene standards are maintained or participating to provide a range of therapeutic activities for our patients.
We are dedicated to the ongoing development of our staff; we offer a wide range of opportunities for personal and professional growth including excellent progression through various career pathways.
Here atCentral and North West London NHS Trust,we provide an extensive range of specialist health services, including Physical Health, Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Eating Disorders, Addictions, Sexual Health and Health and Justice across London, Milton Keynes and beyond. Our services are mainly provided in the community, hospitals, schools and prisons.
We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or the patient’s home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
What we offer
• 27 days’ leave (rising to 29 after five and to 33 after ten years’ of service)
• Enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Excellent progression through various career pathway opportunities
• Regular ongoing supervision and appraisals with optional coaching are available
• Support towards the Continuous Professional Certificate
• Support to complete the Care Certificate
• Generous NHS pension
• Great maternity, paternity and adoption support
• Childcare vouchers
• Wide range of staff networks and initiatives that you can be part of
• Access to meaningful discounts and benefits such as cycle and travel card loans, salary deduction schemes enabling you to buy a car and hundreds of household items whilst spreading the cost over 12 months.
• Health and wellbeing support
Work with people who use our Services, their families, friends and carers and contribute to how people experience ourservices. Band 3 Health Care Assistants / Support Workers are expected to be holistic in their approach to care, kind, responsive, professional and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:
• Keeping the people who use our services as safe as possible by recognising the limits of the Health Care Assistant role and working closely with Registered Nurses
• contributing to the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures when implementing care plans
• ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people when contributing to implementing and evaluating care plans.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
This advert closes on Thursday 24 Oct 2024
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