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Healthcare Support Worker - jigsaw
The closing date is 07 September 2025
Are you passionate about caring for others?
Why not join us on in a rewarding role as a Healthcare Support Worker?
We can offer fully supported training for the role as well as support and guidance to career progression.
We are open 5 days a week - Monday -Friday therefore, we require everyone to be fully flexible across the week .
These are permanent positions within the cancer care directorate
This role requires a care certificate
Please note we are unable to offer sponsorship for this position.
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert
About us
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues. UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme. This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and conditions.
Job responsibilities
* Staff who provide basic care and support to patients in various settings
* Responsible for tasks such as mobility, observations, and medication
* Involved in keeping the environment and equipment clean and safe
* Part of the wider healthcare team that includes nurses, doctors, and other professionals
* Taking patients observations such as blood pressure, temperature, oxygen saturations height ,weight and pulse.
* Helping patients book blood tests and appointments .
* phlebotomy is required
* Basic IT skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Good standard of numeracy and literacy
* Care certificate
* basic IT skills
Experience
* Ability to adapt and learn in a health care environment
* Understanding of basic physiology e.g. normal vital signs, fluid balance, nutritional requirements etc
* Ability to work as part of a team, as well as on own initiative
* Previous experience of working within a care environment/NHS
* Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
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