Healthcare Support Worker

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh; any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.

If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are shortlisted for this post, you will be contacted via your email account used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment-related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board supports flexible working.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top-up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top-up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum. This temporary top-up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.

Job Overview

We currently have vacancies for Band 2 Health Care Support Workers on D7E in the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport. The posts provide a diverse range of care within General Surgery, but more specifically Trauma & Orthopaedics.

Caring, compassionate, enthusiastic, dedicated, and highly skilled. These are just a few words that describe the Nurses that work within our Health Board.

Are you interested in developing your skills and have a desire to care for Trauma and Orthopaedic patients at Royal Gwent Hospital?

Main duties of the job

Currently, we are unable to provide certificates of sponsorship for this role as it does not meet the Home Office’s criteria. Anyone requiring a certificate of sponsorship is therefore unable to be shortlisted and interviewed.

Exciting opportunities have become available within Trauma & Orthopaedics on our Stepdown and Elective Wards at RGH. We are looking for motivated, enthusiastic individuals to join our team. We strive to improve discharge planning whilst ensuring all patients are cared for holistically.

Applications are invited from Health Care Support Workers with good communication skills, both written and verbal, who are committed to providing high standards of care for patients, their families, and carers within a hospital setting.

Applicants must have completed their NVQ level 2 in Health and Social care. The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary, and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications, and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work-life balance, provide occupational health support, and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high-quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Experience

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Skills

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Qualification

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