Package Description
As a Healthcare Support Worker, you will be part of our valued team on our John Stacey Ward, Paulton Memorial Hospital, Bristol.

You will feel valued as a Healthcare Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £25,500 Pro rata with access to our group pension
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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 life's 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 as 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 you're 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
Join Our Caring Team as a Healthcare Assistant!
Location: John Stacey Ward, Paulton Memorial Hospital, Bristol.
Positions Available: Full-time or Part-time

A great opportunity has arisen to join us as a Healthcare Assistant on our John Stacey Ward, Paulton Memorial Hospital, Bristol.

You will join a welcoming multidisciplinary team on our John Stacey Ward, where our services run 7 days per week. We have the opportunity to offer full-time and part-time positions to help with the flexibility of hours to suit you!

We provide general medical and stroke rehabilitation for those stepping down from the acute trusts, as well as supporting our primary care colleagues with admission avoidance and stepping up from the community.

Previous applicants need not apply, as your application has already been considered.

For further information please contact: Tracy Vine, tracey.vine@hcrgcaregroup.com
Recruitment Advisor: Louise Ledward on 07884 659608 or louise.ledward@hcrgcaregroup.com

We are happy to answer any questions that you may have.

A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.

Main Responsibilities

• Provide compassionate, patient-centred care in line with individual care plans.
• Support daily care and treatment under the guidance of a registered practitioner.
• Encourage patient and carer involvement in decision-making.
• Promote patient independence and dignity at all times.
• Work collaboratively within a multi-professional team.
• Ensure clear, respectful communication, including support for language or hearing barriers.
• Maintain accurate documentation of patient needs and preferences.
• Practise effective infection control and contribute to a safe care environment.
• Assist in clinics (e.g. dressing, fracture) and carry out delegated tasks confidently.
• Support junior staff and seek guidance from registered staff when needed.
• Perform select administrative duties as required.
• Obtain appropriate consent and provide or request a chaperone when needed.
• Uphold policies, procedures and professional standards at all times.

The Ideal Candidate
Essential

• 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.

Desirable

• Experience of the NHS.
• Experience of work in an acute or urgent health care setting.
• Basic wound care knowledge and skills.

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. We're 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 doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you, so please apply as soon as you can.

As you'd 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 you'll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited, and by applying for this job we'll 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.

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, Paulton, BS39 7SB, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/

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