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Join Our Team at King's Mill Hospital! Healthcare Support Worker - SSU (Full-Time)

Are you an enthusiastic and caring individual looking to make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients and their families? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you at King's Mill Hospital as a Healthcare Support Worker on our ward.

We offer:

• Supervision and guidance from a Registered Nurse/Professional
• Role development and support building a career
• The chance to be part of an improving organisation and growing team
• Exclusive staff benefits and discounts including plenty of low cost parking, a free uniform, 5% pension scheme & food discounts

Candidates would be expected to demonstrate good communication skills and understanding of basic requirements for individualised patient care, would hold a current care certificate and be willing to train further, be flexible in their working hours, and would attend mandatory and customer care updates.

What you will be doing:

• Monitoring patients' conditions by taking temperatures, pulse, respirations and weight.
• Helping with washing and dressing
• Giving assistance with feeding
• Helping patients to mobilise
• Helping patients with toileting
• Generally assisting with patients overall comfort
• Keeping the ward environment clean and tidy

Thank you for your interest in this role.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

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