About this role
Job summary Package Description As a Health Care Support Worker, youll be part of our valued Savernake Inpatient team. You will feel valued as a Health Care Support Worker within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: £25,00.00 (pro rata to hours worked) with access to our group pension Free tea and coffee at your base location 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 lifes 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 youre 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 Job Introduction The Health Care Support Worker is an essential member of the multi-disciplinary team provide
Main duties of the job The Health Care Support Worker is an essential role within the team at Savernake, where they provide high standards of care and support for patients as well as comfort to families, friends, and carers. In addition to essential care, there will be opportunities to develop additional skills such as monitoring and recording patient observations and conducting ECGs and phlebotomy. The role involves working within a multi-professional team, providing support, care, and treatment to individuals as per guidelines and protocols. Responsibilities include providing essential care to meet patient needs, such as maintaining personal hygiene, continence, mobility, nutrition, and hydration, promoting rehabilitation and encouraging independence, all within the inpatient ward setting. The role offers potential for flexible working patterns and requires someone motivated, compassionate, and with good team-working skills, experience working under supervision, and a good general education. A Care Certificate is required or a willingness to achieve it.
About us HCRG Care Group, established in 2006, is one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services. They work closely with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. They 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. Their reach extends across England, supporting many millions of people annually and directly helping more than half a million people each year. The values driving their work are simple: they care, they think, they do. Committed to equal opportunities, HCRG Care Group welcomes applications from a broad, diverse range of individuals, promotes safeguarding, and implements safer recruitment processes for the protection of the vulnerable people they serve.
Job description Job responsibilities Package Description:
Package Description
As a Health Care Support Worker, youll be part of our valued Savernake Inpatient team.
You will feel valued as a Health Care Support Worker within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
£25,00.00 (pro rata to hours worked)with access to our group pension Free tea and coffee at your base location 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 lifes 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 youre 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
Job Introduction
The Health Care Support Worker is an essential member of the multi-disciplinary team providing high standard of care for patients as well as support and comfort to family members, friends and carers.
In addition to Essential Care and Support there will be the opportunity to develop additional skills, including the monitoring and recording of Patient Observations, ECGs and Phlebotomy.
Apply now to join our team and help us to deliver our vision to improve health and wellbeing by providing high quality care.
Savernake Ward provides 24 hour care, 7 days a week to our patients so the ideal candidate will be able to work a variety of shifts.
We are open to conversations around flexible working patterns.
Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship at this time.
If you are interested, please come for an informal visit to meet our team. To arrange this or for further information please contact Ward Manager: James Outhwaite on [email protected]
Main Responsibilities
To work within a multi-professional team in an Inpatient setting, providing, support, care, and treatment to individuals, within guidelines and protocols identified for the role.
You will be expected to provide a high level of Essential Care to meet the needs of patients in the Ward. This will include helping to maintain personal hygiene, continence, mobility, nutrition and hydration.
As well as supporting recovery you will promote rehabilitation, encouraging patients to regain and maintain as much independence as possible.
A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.
The ideal Candidate
Were looking for someone who is motivated and compassionate with the following:
Good general education. Care Certificate or willingness to achieve. Experience of working under supervision. Experience of supporting other workers. Ability to work as a team member. Delivering patient focused care. Ability to recognise own limitations. Typing/data inputting skills. Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids. Undertake specific nursing/therapy skills. Driven to achieve. Self-motivated. Good time management
About the Company
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.Were 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 doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As youd 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 youll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job well 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Good general education, Care Certificate or willingness to achieve, experience working under supervision, ability to work as a team member, capability to undertake specific nursing/therapy skills, typing/data inputting skills, physical skills to handle patients and use aids.
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 HCRG Care Group
Address HCRG Care Group
Marlborough
SN8 3HL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)