Clinical Healthcare Support Worker

Bath, England, United Kingdom

7/21/2025

Job Overview

As a Clinical Healthcare Support Worker you will be a core member of the team delivering personal care, both clinical and non-clinical, to patients. You’ll also be key in supporting patients with their own self-care and independence. To assist in patient care and other ward/department related duties under the supervision of the trained nurse.

This is a busy role so you will be working together with your team to balance different tasks that often change.

Main duties of the job

Your Daily Duties Will Be Varied To Include

• blood pressure monitoring
• oxygen saturation levels
• body temperature
• pulse rate and respiration rate
• glucose monitoring,
• collection and testing of urine, faecal and sputum samples
• wound swabs
• removal of catheters
• venepuncture
• recording your actions accurately in patient note
  
  

Working for our organisation

At the RUH we put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are proud to be in the top 20 best hospitals to work for in the country.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• A Qualifications and credit framework ( QCF) Level 3. This could be an NVQ, BTEC or equivalent international qualification in health/social care.
• Able to demonstrate knowledge and skills gained through the equivalent level of employment experience.
• Care certificate
  
  

Desirable criteria

• competent in venepuncture
  
  

Knowledge and experience

Essential criteria

• Able to understand and communicate in English both verbally and in writing.
• Numerical and analytic skills to do patient observations
• previous experience working in health care with stroke patients
• Able to work in a team environment
• Have a customer-focused approach which is essential to providing patients with the best possible experience and working together with colleagues and other teams across the Trust
• Basic but essential IT skills to access required systems such as electronic patient records
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience working as a health care support worker
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Good written and verbal communication skills in the English language
• Good IT skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to be flexible
  
  

Personal qualities and physical attributes

Essential criteria

• Flexible approach to shift patterns and unit needs
• Able to work under direct supervision
• Good time management skills
  
  

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if we receive a high number of applications. We strongly encourage you to complete and submit your application in good time to ensure it can be considered.

Documents to download

• Health Care Support Worker (PDF, 834.3KB)
• Join the RUH (PDF, 1.1MB)
  
  

Further details / informal visits contact

Name Sharon Ferguson Job title Senior Sister Email address [email protected] Telephone number 01225 825775