Clinical Support Worker
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The Senior Health Care Support Worker plays a vital role within the Day Case Unit at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, supporting Registered Nurses in delivering high-quality pre and post-operative care to patients undergoing elective surgical procedures.
The post holder will provide compassionate, patient-centred care while carrying out a range of clinical and non-clinical duties, including observations, phlebotomy, ECG recording, cannulation, catheterisation, wound care, and maintaining a safe, clean, and well-organised ward environment.
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, the role requires excellent communication, teamwork, and organisational skills, alongside a commitment to maintaining patient dignity, confidentiality, and safety.
The successful candidate will contribute to ensuring patients receive efficient, safe, and supportive care throughout their surgical journey.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Demonstrate good communication skills and understanding of basic requirements for individual patient care
- Recognise people's right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect
Desirable
- Awareness of Safeguarding issues
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ 3 in care or willingness to work towards
Desirable
- Care Certificate
Further Training
Essential
- Able to attend a 5-day Clinical Induction
- Committed to attending further training and development as identified
Experience
Essential
- Able to demonstrate clear and robust verbal and written English communication skills
- Experience of working as part of a team
- Previous care work experience
- Previous face-to-face customer care experience
Desirable
- Previous experience in a hospital setting
- Previous experience with day surgery
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Flexible approach
- Able to work flexibly on a varied shift pattern according to the roster including nights and weekends
About the employer
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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