Healthcare Support worker- Lymington and Romsey

Implement delegated care plans under the supervision of a registered professional. Provide essential personal care (hygiene, nutrition, mobility, sleep). Perform and record clinical observations, including NEWS2 vital signs, venepuncture, blood glucose monitoring, simple wound dressings, urinalysis, and cannula or catheter removal.

Communicate compassionately and professionally with patients, relatives, and colleagues using a trauma-informed approach. Address barriers to understanding (e.g., physical or mental health conditions) using empathy and reassurance. Build strong relationships across departments while strictly maintaining confidentiality and professional boundaries.

Monitor and assess patient comfort and conditions through test results or observation. Safely identify potential clinical deterioration, signs of distress, or vulnerability/abuse, initiating emergency procedures and escalating appropriately to a registered nurse to maintain safety.

Manage competing demands, organise your own day-to-day work tasks, and carry out duties within your scope of practice. Engage patients in meaningful everyday living activities and therapeutic interventions, and participate in audits or surveys as required.

Maintain accurate, up-to-date manual and electronic patient records, including clinical observations, position charts, and fluid intake, in line with Trust policy.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

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