Healthcare Support Worker - Collingwood Ward

Job summary

Collingwood Ward has exciting positions available for Healthcare Support Workers with an interest and passion for caring for the over sixty fives. We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and well organised staff.

The successful candidates will have excellent communication skills, be able to provide a high standard of care and become part of a small friendly committed team caring for elderly patients.

We are proud to be part of HIOW Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and are committed to the delivery of high-quality patient centred care.

Successful candidates can expect:

• Protected supernumery induction programme
• Buddy system
• Training opportunities include
• Mandatory and statutory training, link role development, the Care Certificate, Clinical supervision, phlebotomy, physical observations, blood sugar analysis, tissue viability.
• Continuing Professional Development.

At present, the Trust is unable to offer Skilled Worker visa sponsorship for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.

Main duties of the job

If you are new to Health Care we will place you on a HCSW induction programme to ensure that you are fully trained and supported to perform the role. The programme will last for up to 6 months and during this period of training you will be paid a salary of 25272. On completion of your training period your salary will rise to 25760 as per the advert.

If you've worked as a Healthcare Assistant (HCA), your skills transfer directly as a Healthcare Support Worker (HCSW) across mental and physical health.

• Working under indirect supervision, as part of the Community Team, the post holder will to have responsibility for delivering nursing care to patients following prescribed care plans and protocols
• Deal empathetically with sensitive information.
• Safely manage self-including:-
• Lone working in the community
• Handling body fluids and other hazardous material
• Patient handling
• Medical sharps
• Challenging behaviour situations
• Driving self
• Working as part of the Community Team and with other agencies you will provide care following a person-centred assessment for the health and well-being of patients.
• To deliver nursing care by following a care plan written as part of a holistic assessment by the registered nurse for patients and their family/carers in their own home and other community settings.
• Perform basic clinical activities which will include, wound care, venepuncture, blood glucose monitoring, physical observations.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence