Job description

Let’s improve lives together!

Join our Healthcare Support Worker team to provide the best service to our local communities!

With a passion of improving the life of our families and friends, a flexible approach and an excellent communicator, you will have the opportunity of becoming part of your local community care teams by joining us at Hinchinbrooke Hospital, in Huntingdon.

As a healthcare support worker, you will be of great value to our teams in providing the outstanding care and experience to our patients and their families. We will help you choose the area that fits your skills and career aspirations from medical specialities, urgent care and accident and emergency, to surgical, imaging or outpatients’ areas.

If you are and overseas candidate wishing to apply and would require sponsorship, you can determine the likelihood of obtaining a COS for this post by assessing your circumstances against criteria specified on the gov.uk website

You will be joining a supportive, inclusive and diverse team with a respectful, caring and compassionate attitude towards our patients and their families. We value team work and positive collaboration, as well as encouraging personal and professional development through in-house and external training.

We can help you grow! Our main wards have a designated Healthcare Assistant Mentor who will support your on-boarding and our education team will provide you a comprehensive induction and training programme, ensuring you are well equipped with the right skills and knowledge to apply in your daily role while working towards obtaining the nationally
recognised Care Certificate.

Your daily duties will be performed under the kind supervision of our registered staff. The main duties may include:

• Personal care, food, personal hygiene and overall reassurance, comfort and safety;
• Help patients move around;
• Make beds and maintain a clean, safe clinical area;
• Communicate to patients and their families;
• Manage stock levels for linen and other supplies.

When your tasks prove to be challenging, our Wellbeing team will be there to support you as well as our in-house physiotherapy services.

We are committed to ensure a work-life balance to all our staff by offering full time and part time roles, flexible working hours on a shift pattern to fit around your family life.

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and candidates form our local communities.

Benefits to you

• 27 days annual leave for new starters, rising to 29 days after five years of service and 33 days after 10 years of service, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro-rata for part time staff);
• NHS Pension Scheme;
• Flexible working opportunities;
• Increased hourly rates for unsociable hours e.g. night shifts, weekends, bank holidays;
• Career development and training;
• Wellbeing support and activities;
• In-house physiotherapy Service;
• Free Staff Uniform;
• On-site canteens with subsidised meals;
• Subsidised staff parking (currently free).

Full duties can be found in the attached job description but if you want to learn more about this role, please drop us an email.