Senior Healthcare Support Worker | North Bristol NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 22 Medi 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £24,937 - £26,598 per annum, pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 22 Hydref 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Bristol, BS105NB |
| Cwmni: | North Bristol NHS |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7499773/339-TA-SHCSW-0925 |
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Are you an experienced Healthcare Support Worker looking for a new challenge? North Bristol NHS Trust is seeking enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our clinical divisions:
• Anaesthesia, Surgery, Critical Care & Renal (ASCR)
• Medicine
• Neurological & Musculoskeletal Sciences (NMSK)
• Women & Children’s Health
• Core Clinical Services
We have vacancies in areas such as Burns & Plastics, General Medicine, Acute Frailty, Respiratory, Stroke/Neurology, Elective Orthopaedics, Theatres & Medirooms!
Senior Healthcare Support Workers (SHCSWs) are vital team members, delivering direct patient care and supporting registered practitioners in providing high-quality, compassionate healthcare tailored to patients’ assessed needs and care plans.
You will carry out a range of clinical and non-clinical tasks under the supervision of registered healthcare professionals and in line with Trust values.
Important: This role does not currently meet the salary threshold for a Skilled Worker visa. As of 9 April 2025, the minimum salary requirement is £25,000. While pay may vary with NHS experience, most new starters begin at the bottom of Band 3, which does not meet the threshold.
This vacancy may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Interviews will take place week commencing 13th October.
Working as a Healthcare Support Worker, you will be involved with direct patient care whilst maintaining the privacy and dignity of patients. You will be working alongside a Registered Nurse to provide essential nursing care and helping your patients with daily living tasks such as:
• helping patients feel comfortable and move around
• monitoring patients and performing basic health checks
• washing, dressing patients and helping them go to the toilet
• serving meals and helping to feed patient
Qualified and experienced Healthcare Support Workers would be expected to carry out a range of clinical duties with minimal/ no supervision upon successful completion of clinical skills training, including:
• blood pressure monitoring
• oxygen saturation levels
• body temperature
• pulse rate and respiration rate
• glucose monitoring
• wound swab
• collection and testing of urine, faecal and sputum samples
Whilst completing these tasks, the underlining aim is to deliver high-quality patient care at all times.
North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.
North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.
Please see the job description attached for a full list of role responsibilities.
Nursing Care (under indirect supervision, once deemed competent)
1. Obtain consent prior to giving care in accordance with Trust policies.
2. Duties are delegated to you in line with care plans
3. Not all duties are routine, and you will need to use your knowledge, experience and understanding to take decisions within your area of responsibility
4. To carry out a range of clinical duties with minimal / no supervision, including for example, blood pressure monitoring, oxygen saturation levels, body temperature, pulse rate and respiration rate, glucose monitoring, collection and testing of urine samples / faecal samples / sputum samples and wound swabs ensuring delivery of high-quality patient care at all times. NB: this list is not exhaustive and will vary depending on area of work.
5. Participate in patient assessment providing high quality holistic patient care and escalating concerns about patients to other clinical staff
6. Practice safe standards of care to patients following Trust guidelines and policies and policies and be able to concentrate for periods throughout the day with occasional interruptions.
7. Provide clinical care in accordance with the infection prevention and health and safety policies and procedures.
8. Maintain the work environment in line with Trust infection control and patient safety policies
9. Develop the skills to actively facilitate self-care and independence with patients.
10. Promote health education specific to the clinical area and in line with national and local policies.
11. Maintain accurate records relating to communication with patients, relatives, and members of the Multidisciplinary team regarding all aspects of care demonstrating a range of appropriate communication skills.
12. Ensuring equipment and stores are well maintained, taking appropriate action if the equipment is faulty
13. Work effectively as part of a team.
This advert closes on Monday 6 Oct 2025