Job overview
The Role of the Health Care Assistant Higher Level within The Countess of Brecknock Hospice is to assist and support the qualified health professionals and Clinical Support Workers in ensuring optimal care for the patients. Delivering outstanding palliative and end of life care to patients within the inpatient ward, caring for 10 patients. The delivery of high quality, effective and compassionate health care to the patients of the Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust is the most important objective for the organisation
Main duties of the job
As a healthcare support worker, you’ll work under the supervision of a healthcare professional, supporting them and helping patients on their journey back to full health.
We have the training, support, education, and opportunities to help you make the very most of your talent. Whether that means becoming a registered nursing associate, registered nurse, midwife or physiotherapist of the future, or moving into a management role or simply being the best Healthcare Support Worker you can be.
It’s a hands-on role – one minute you could be taking blood and the next lending an ear to an anxious patient – but it’s one of the most rewarding. Duties include monitoring patients and performing basic health checks, making patients feel comfortable, washing and dressing patients and helping to feed patients.
Working as a Senior Healthcare Support Worker is a vital role within the team and if you’re positive, caring and have a can-do attitude – we want you to join us.
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Literacy level 1 or equivalent (GCSE D-G).
2. Numeracy level 1 or equivalent (GCSE D-G)
Desirable criteria
3. NVQ level 2/3 or equivalent or above in Health or Health and Social Care or working towards an award
4. ESOL level 2 or equivalent (if English not first language).
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
5. Experience in a public facing/customer care role or environment
Desirable criteria
6. Previous experience in a Health/Health and Social Care role
7. Previous NHS experience / Understanding of NHS/Social care systems
Skills & Ability
Essential criteria
8. Good written and verbal communication in the English language