Job summary
Employer heading
Health Care Support Worker
Band 2
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic and highly motivated Band 2 HCSW to join our friendly and supportive team at Pillmawr Rehabilitation Ward. The post is for 37.5 hours per week working 3 x 12 hour shifts. Mixture of days/nights and weekends.
We are looking for staff who have energy, enthusiasm, commitment and drive and who are patient-centred.
You will have the opportunity to develop your skills under the supervision of our qualified nurses, caring for patients during their rehabilitation and in achieving their discharge with the best possible outcomes.
The post holder will work under the supervision/guidance of a registered nurse/clinical lead and will work collaboratively with them and the wider multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to act at all times within the guidelines of the client’s care plan and within the supervision of senior support and or professional in charge
The post holder is expected to maintain positive relationships with service users, relatives, carers, members of the mental health team. They are also expected to work under the guidance of CPNs, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Dieticians, Psychologists Speech and Language therapists, District Nurses, Consultants and other medics.
The post holder will be expected to attend and fully complete an agreed induction programme and undertake on-going training relevant to the role. They will also have the option to achieve a Health and Social Care NVQ Level 3 or equivalent to support their career development.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To contribute to and be actively engaged in a value base service which meets the needs of service users, ensuring that their wishes to live and experience an ordinary life are respected
To support the senior qualified staff in the delivery of Care Plans for service users ensuring appropriate interventions in the Care Plans are delivered.
To contribute to the assessment of risk and need, liaising and sharing information, which may be complex and sensitive, with the more senior staff members involved in the service user’s care.
To support service users to engage effectively in the development of their Care Plan
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Health or Social Care related NVQ 2 or Equivalent Compentencies
- Ability to form positive therapeutic relationships with service users
Desirable criteria
- Supporting individuals in emotional or mental crisis
- Experience of working paid or voluntary with people in the provision of social, mental or similar care to people who require assistance in their everyday life
Experience
Essential criteria
- Able to work as part of a professional team
Desirable criteria
- Able to work as PA willingness to undertake further in-house and mandatory traininga
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hollie Burrows
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01633 436914
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