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Location

Salford, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom

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Job description

A Vacancy at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.

We are pleased to advertise a Band 2 Health Care Support Worker vacancy to work on the Surgical Enhanced Care Unit at Salford Royal Hospital.

Surgical Enhanced Care unit comprises of 10 Enhanced Care Surgical Beds.

The role involves supporting the nursing staff in delivering high quality care and ensuring that the nurses have the equipment they require at the patients bedside and helping to maintain the clinical equipment to ensure that the environment is as clean as possible. You will also assist the qualified nurses to provide nursing care.

The shift pattern is days and nights, 7 days a week.

If you are looking for a new challenge and have excellent communication skills then we welcome your application.

Unfortunately, this role does not meet the criteria required to qualify for sponsorship.
• Establish and maintain communication with patients, relatives and carers, working in partnership with the multidisciplinary team to provide holistic patient care.
• Contribute to own personal development.
• Assist in maintaining own and others’ health, safety and security.
• Contribute ideas for service improvement.
• Ensure own actions help to maintain quality and patient safety.
• Undertake routine assessment tasks related to individuals’ health and well-being, making modifications within prescribed parameters and reporting back to Senior Staff on patients’ progress.
• Assist in delivering programmes of care to meet individuals’ health and well-being needs, promoting patient independence as appropriate, in partnership with the multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to work flexibly and unsociable hours to meet the demands of the service
• Assisting the Nurses with patient care.
• Ensuring the unit is well stocked and clean and tidy.
• Assisting patients with activities of daily living.
• Supporting patients with reduced capacity.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:

This advert closes on Thursday 29 Feb 2024

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