Child Health Care Support Worker

The Health Care Support Worker is a member of the ward/department team who implements prescribed care and/or undertakes some higher-level clinical activities as directed by a registered nurse. The main dimensions of the role are to:

Your delegated daily duties will be varied but may include:

Assist with the maintenance of patient hygiene, including washing bathing and mouth care. Assist with serving meals and occassional feeding of patients, including reporting patients intake and recording on charts as appropriate. Escalating to registered staff any concerns relating to nutritional intake.

Assisting with the recording and safe keeping of patients property/valuables.

Moving and repositioning of patients.

Making of occupied and unoccupied beds, tying up of dirty linen bags and despatching to laundry and replenishing of linen and stock cupboards.

Cleaning and tidying examination rooms.

Assist with patients mobilisation, ensuring safe environment and using appropriate techniques.

Assist with occupational, physiotherapy and recreational activities.

Assist in the care of relatives and visitors.

Assist with the care of patients in isolation.

Chaperone professional staff where appropriate and accompany patients to other departments as necessary.

Be involved in patient booking in/admission procedures by introducing patients to ward/department area as directed by registered nurse.

Be adaptable and flexible to working in various areas of the ward as required.

Assist the multi professional team to prepare and support patients undergoing treatment and/or investigation maintaining privacy and dignity at all times.

Assisting in the care of the dying patient, which may include exposure to distressing or emotional situations.

Assisting in preparing deceased patients for the mortuary.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large

acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute

services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a

larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from

three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our

caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred

care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to

work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our

everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise

accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working

within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a

DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check

(at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting

Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Experience

Essential: - Previous experience of working as a Health Care Assistant in an acute hospital environment/outpatient/day case setting.

Desirable: - Working with Children within a health care setting.

Other Job Requirements

Essential: - Across site working at KTC is occasionally required.

Personal Qualities

Essential: - Flexible attitude to routine /non routine work.; - Good interpersonal skills and demonstrate an understanding of diversity and compassion.

Desirable: - Ability to identify personal development needs.; - Responds well to change and innovation.

Qualifications

Essential: - Basic Education; - Willingness to achieve NVQ

Desirable: - NVQ 2 / NVQ 3; - Recognised qualification in English; - Achieved Care Certificate

Knowledge and Skills