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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Support Worker / Healthcare Assistant to join us at St Martin’s hospital. Following the success of our Winter Pressure ward, the service has been extended to help further ease system pressure through an escalation inpatients unit.

This is an exciting service which promotes criteria led discharge to avoid delays for patients. This service also works in collaboration with the RUH, integrated board, and other acute hospitals within Bath, Swindon and Wiltshire integrated care system.

As a Support Worker / Healthcare Assistant you will have a blend of care and therapy duties. You will assist with the assessment, management and treatment of patients under the direction of the team leader and Ward Nurses.

Though the ward is temporary, you will join our organisation on a Permanent basis. We are open to full-time and part-time (Minimum 18 hours) opportunities.

We offer various shift patterns (such as 7am – 7.30pm or 7pm-7.30am) with options for short or long shifts dependent on the needs of the individual and the needs of the service. Shifts are 7 days a week with up to 1 in 3 weekends and bank holidays. Shifts work on a rota basis with internal rotation to nights.

As a Support Worker / Healthcare Assistant you will:

• Working in partnership with patients, carers and other partners enabling informed choices.
• Maintain high standards of individualised patient care and report any changes in condition to senior colleagues.
• Provide therapy support as identified. This may involve delivering equipment items, promoting independence in daily living tasks, including personal care, washing and dressing, meal preparation, general mobility and transfers.
• carry out basic nursing care tasks as necessary, including continence management and the prompting of medication

You will be supported by a team of Band 5 Community Nurses, Associate Practitioners, a Team Lead and Ward Manager. We are focused on fostering development for our team members offering opportunities to develop and gain experience in areas that interest you most.

The ideal candidate will:

• have an NVQ Level 3 in Nursing or an interest in studying this
• Community/Acute Hospital experience
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and can work well as a team
• Experienced in the use of work-related equipment, aids and devices e.g.: blood pressure machines, pulse oximetry; anti-coagulation monitoring, blood glucose testing, temperature

We offer apprenticeships for NVQs in Nursing as well as the Associate Practitioner Programme.

Secondments from other organisations from BSW would also be considered.

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

As a Support worker / HCA you’ll be part of our Escalation Inpatients Unit to ease System pressure at St Martins Hospital. You will feel valued a Support Worker / HCA at HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• You will receive a salary of £22,000 – 23,500 with access to our group pension
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Free and plentiful on site-parking at St Martins Hospital
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission