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Job summary

Main area
Healthcare
Grade
Apprenticeships: Apprenticeship
Contract
Fixed term: 21 months
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Full time 37.5 hours= Monday through Friday 07:30-15:30. Part time hours available min 22.5 hrs to be arranged with manager)
Job ref
319-6360749JN
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Trustwide Northumbria House
Town
North Shields
Salary
£22,816 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
14/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior healthcare Support Worker Apprentice

Apprenticeships: Apprenticeship

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

 

 

Job overview

To help maintain a clean and safe ward environment. Carry out a range of clinical and non-clinical healthcare or therapeutic tasks, under the direct or indirect supervision of registered healthcare practitioners.

Provide high quality, compassionate healthcare, following standards, policies or protocols and always acting within the limits of your competence and needs of the department. 

To maintain high clinical standards in line with the Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers.

After a period of learning within a healthcare environment you will work toward the on-programme requirements of the Senior Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship Standard.

Main duties of the job

  • Provide high quality, compassionate healthcare, following standards, policies or protocols and always acting within the limits of your competence and needs of the department.
  • Carry out a range of clinical and non-clinical healthcare or therapeutic tasks, under the direct or indirect supervision of registered healthcare practitioners.
  • Duties will be delegated to you in line with care plans.
  • The role is undertaken following a period of experience in healthcare so you are able to demonstrate best practice and act as a role model.
  • You will treat people with dignity, respecting people’s diversity, beliefs, culture, needs, values, privacy and preferences.
  • You will show respect and empathy for those you work with, have the courage to challenge areas of concern and work to best practice.
  • You will be adaptable, reliable and consistent, show discretion, show resilience and self-awareness and show supervisory leadership within the limits of your competence.
  • To attend and participate in structured teaching/theory sessions to gain the identified on-programme educational requirements for a Level 3 apprenticeship.
  • You are accountable for your work and for reviewing the effectiveness of your actions.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

 Help registered practitioners deliver healthcare services to people.
Carry out a range of clinical and non-clinical healthcare or therapeutic tasks, under the direct or indirect supervision of registered healthcare practitioners. Provide high quality, compassionate healthcare, following standards, policies or protocols and always acting within the limits of your competence and needs of the department.

After a period of learning within a healthcare environment you will work toward the on-programme requirements of the Senior Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship Standard.

To maintain high clinical standards in line with the Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers.

To help maintain a clean and safe ward environment.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Minimum of 5 GCSE’s grade A-C (9-3) must include English and Maths
Desirable criteria
  • A level education
  • Care Certificate

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Previous health or social care experience (preferably in a healthcare setting)

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Michelle Archer
Job title
Programme Coordinator
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07812390385
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