Health Care Assistant (Clinical Support Worker)

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Clinical Support Worker - Ward Areas who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Are you looking to develop a career within healthcare? Do you want to work in a hospital setting, helping to provide quality care to patients? Do you want to learn and develop your personal qualifications, while also working? Then this may be the role for role for you!

East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is currently recruiting for the post of Clinical Support Worker, to work under the supervision of a Registered Nurse to provide a high standard of patient care.

You must be 18+ to undertake this post.

We currently CSW opportunities in the following areas

• Elderly Care
• Acute Services - Such as Emergency Department

*This is an overview of our current vacancies however we may have CSW roles available within areas of the trust* Please see below Ward Brochure attachment to find out more information on our ward areas.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

The ideal candidate will be:

Kind and caringFriendly and approachableAble to follow instruction and procedures in line with Trust PolicyAble to demonstrate using own initiativeBe flexible

Some of the responsibilities within the role of Clinical Support Worker are:

• Communicating with patients
• Working under the supervision of a Registered Nurse/Midwife
• Washing / dressing patients
• Taking patients physiological observations
• Making beds and cleaning bed areas
• Serving meals and assisting feeding patients
• Talking / listening to patients

To find out further details about the role please visit our Trust Clinical Support worker page - https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/careers/roles-professions/clinical-support-workers/

The Trust can also offer you a flexible career approach to learning which comprises of a "step on" and "step off" option.

This is a training post, while applicants must undertake 16 months apprenticeship.

***Applicants will be invited to part take in an online diagnostic assessment of Maths and English in relation to the apprenticeship**

We have vacancies that cut across all our divisions, which include planned and unplanned. All Clinical Support Workers are based on Hospital Wards / Departments and will be working Days, Nights, Weekends and Bank Holidays.

About us

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 plus dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.We run the following hospitals:o The Lister Hospital, Stevenageo New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden Cityo Hertford County, Hertfordo Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We understand that finding & starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.

Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen & consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.