About this role
Job summary
We are looking for health care assistants to join our Frailty wards in the new frailty block.
Are you passionate about providing excellent care and promoting independence for frail elderly patients?
Do you want to work with in a team who will help you learn and develop your skills as a health care support worker?
If so this position is for you!
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the role of a health care support worker on the frailty ward is to provide high standards of patient care, providing personal care, helping patients with their dietary and fluid intake, helping them use the toilet., and to assist with repositioning.
Good communication skills are essential in this role , alongside the ability to document and escalate any worries to the trained staff
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.
Job description Job responsibilities
For further information on this role please see attached job description and person specification for full details.
Person Specification
Experience Essential
Working with people Proven experience in ward enviroment
skills knowledge and abilities Essential
Demonstrate ability to communicate orally and in writing Demonstrate knowledge of roles and responsibly within clinical setting
Desirable
Keyboard Skills
education qualification Essential
Demonstrate ability to communicate in English orally and in writing A minimum Maths and English GCSE grades 3 - 9 or grades A,B,C,D or equivalent qualifications
Desirable
Diploma level 2/3 in Health & Social Care
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 details Employer name Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address frailty wards
Hereford
HR12ER
Employer's website https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)