Health Care Support Worker - Ward 5D
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Prescot, L35 5DRView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£25,272
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
2 October 2026
1 day leftJob description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Health Care Assistant to join our team in 5D Whiston Hospital 5D has 25 in-patient beds and also a specialist...
- Undertake personal care duties for patients within the care setting accessing supervision from registered healthcare practitioner. Personal care refers to delivery of personal hygiene and assisting with feeding, not requiring clinical skills.
- Record patient's personal care information in accordance with local and trust policies.
- Work with all members of the multi-disciplinary team to deliver the Trust's vision and values providing safe, high quality compassionate, person centred care.
- Demonstrate ward routine to new employees in own work area, where required.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.
Our Values
Essential: - We are Kind; - We are Open; - We are Inclusive
Qualifications
Essential: - Completion of Trust Care Certificate within 4 months of appointment; - Basic literacy and numeracy skills
Desirable: - NVQ level 2 Health and Social Care or equivalent; - Care Certificate (equivalent to level 1)
Knowledge and Experience
Essential: - Knowledge of personal care and related procedures; - Experience of working in a team
Desirable: - Experience of working in a patient care/health related role
Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively in both verbal and written formats
- Good interpersonal skills
- Able to work within a team
- Able to accept direction and guidance
- Aware of own limitations
- Flexible in working hours
- Able to prioritise own workload and manage time effectively
- Flexible, adaptable and responsive to change
- Reliable and professional
- Ability to cope in stressful and challenging situations
- Inclusive and non-judgmental
- Punctual, motivated and committed
- Effective role model demonstrating Trust values
- Basic IT skills
Other
Essential
- Frequent, moderate effort for several short periods during the shift such as manual handling patients to supporting patients personal care
- Occasional requirement for concentration, with few competing demands for attention
- Aware that developing resilience to distressing situations is necessary without losing the ability to care compassionately
- Aware of the process for accessing staff health and wellbeing support
- Occasional exposure to distressing situations which may care of chronic health conditions, patient end of life care/ care after death
- Able to carry out direct personal care as required on ward or department
- Occasional exposure to patients with challenging behaviours
How to apply
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Provenance
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First seen
22 September 2026
Last checked
23 September 2026
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