Healthcare Support Worker Fracture Clinic | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £22,816 Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | Chelmsford, CM1 7ET |
| Company: | Southend University Hospital NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6170941/390-TO-BR-4011 |
Summary
Do you want to make a difference to people’s lives?
We are looking for individuals with or without experience to work in healthcare, to join the NHS family helping people from your local community. Healthcare Support Worker opportunities are available in Fracture and Orthopaedic clinic. This role will involve working in the clinic environment and Plaster Room.
No experience? No problem. We will teach you everything you need to know. To us, it is more important that you are a caring and kind person with a genuine desire to help and support patients and their families. If this sounds like you, then you already have the skills that make a great Health Care Support Worker.
Right from the time you join us, you will have access to learning, development and training opportunities. As you progress in your NHS career you will acquire the knowledge, skills and confidence you need to provide safe and compassionate patient care.
Mid and South Essex is a great place to work, offering a working environment with an inclusive culture that looks after and values our people and creates a sense of belonging. We encourage applications from people who embrace our values and who will enable us to expand our diverse workforce.
The Healthcare Support Worker role can also lead to a range of career opportunities.
As a Health Care Support Worker, you will be a hugely valuable support to our Nursing and Midwifery teams providing care to our patients. Every day will be different and you will work alongside the rest of the team carrying out a wide range of tasks and assisting with care to support the needs of the patients and their families.
• Examples of what you may do as part of your role• Applying Plastercasts to patients
• Chaperoning and assisting patients in the Clinic environment.
• Dressings/stitch removal
• Entering information onto computer systems
• Talking to patients and their families
• Patient Education
• Skills and personal attributes needed• Caring and kind
• Cheerful and friendly
• Keen to support patients with their visit to clinic
• Able to follow direct instructions
• Happy to work in a team but also able to use own initiative
• Have good listening and communication skills
• Be well organised
Full time and part time positions are available, and we are open to discuss flexible working arrangements.
** We look forward to hearing from you and wish you good luck **
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.
We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook – if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.
We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress
What we Offer:
• Range of opportunities for flexible working
• Strong team ethos
• NHS salary structure and pension
• 27 days holiday plus days off for bank holidays worked
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• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Childcare vouchers
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• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Health and wellbeing support
• Discounts on public transport
• Disability Confident Reasonable adjustments
This advert closes on Sunday 14 Apr 2024