Job summary

We are looking for compassionate, enthusiastic and caring Healthcare Support Worker to join our District Nursing Team based in Taunton, Somerset.

Are you reliable and flexible? If you have good interpersonal and organisational skills, enjoy a challenge and have a passion to deliver a high standard of patient care to our patients, their families and our colleagues, then this is the opportunity for you!

Join our dedicated team where we strike to make a difference.

Important information about work visas :

The role of HCSW does not meet the minimum skill requirement set by UKVI for sponsorship, therefore we are not able to issue a certificate of sponsorships for this role.

Main duties of the job

To support and assist Registered Nurses / Midwives as a member of the nursing team and under supervision perform a broad range of activities and assigned tasks as required by the patients individualised care plans.

About us

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.

The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines.

You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.

There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable.

You will experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan - there is truly something for everyone!

Job description

Job responsibilities

Communication & Working Relationships

• Act at all times in a respectful manner that protects and promotes patients dignity and modesty
• Carry out the duties of the role in a professional manner to patients, visitors and colleagues
• Communicate with relatives and patients and other team members in a sensitive and caring manner
• Participate and contribute to departmental meetings as required
• Accurate documentation and communication with the team and wider MDT. Planning & Organisation
• Assist the Registered Nurse by contributing to care planning and review and report all of the outcomes and any concerns of all basic patient care duties personally undertaken clearly and promptly to the registered Nurse and document as required

Responsibility for Patient / Client Care, Treatment & Therapy

• At times be considered a lone worker and as such will carry out and undertake familiar tasks with minimum supervision.
• Be required to respond to emergency situations within their sphere of competence and escalate risk accordingly.
• Have an understanding of mental capacity and respond appropriately.

Use interpersonal skills to build a therapeutic relationship with patients.

Undertake a range of physical observations and recognise deteriorations in health and take action and report appropriately within sphere of competence.

• Perform basic life support for individuals using appropriate resuscitation techniques and equipment.
• Undertake delegated clinical tasks, such as wound care and insulin administration.
• Venepuncture.

Person Specification

Essential and Desirable

Essential

• To work flexibly to cover a variety of shift patterns
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Behaviour aligned with Trust values
• Good standard of literacy, numeracy and spoken English
• A good understanding of health and social care

Desirable

• Previous experience of district nursing
• Qualification in health and social care

Last updated : 2024-05-27