Healthcare Support Worker - Savernake

Healthcare Support Worker - SavernakeHCRG Care Group 2.42.4 out of 5 stars Marlborough SN8 3HL Profile insightsFind out how your skills align with the job description SkillsDo you have experience in Typing ? BenefitsPulled from the full job description • Employee discount • Company pension Full job descriptionJob Introduction Package Description As a Health Care Support Worker , you'll 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 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 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 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 would like more information please contact: Recruitment Advisor: Louise Ledward on or 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 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 We're 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. 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.