Health Care Support Worker - Cardiology
Location
Bath, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/5/2025
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Description
Job Overview
We are expanding our team of Clinical Healthcare Support Workers within our Cardiology Daycase Unit (CDCU) and we’re inviting caring, compassionate people who are happy to work as part of a large and inclusive team to join us.
If you're kind, caring and passionate about making a positive difference to others, this role could be for you. Our Clinical Health Care Support Workers are integral to our nursing team.
You will be a core member of the team delivering personal care to patients within CDCU. This is a Nurse led Unit open between the hours of 7am and 5pm Monday to Friday caring for a wide range of patients admitted for planned Cardiology Procedures. This ranges from a diagnostic angiogram to a Cardioversion to insertion of a complex device (ie Pacemaker). Every day is different and varied.
Many of our Clinical Healthcare Support Workers have progressed to become registered Nurses via the apprenticeship route, with full support from our nursing and education teams.
We prefer previous healthcare experience in this role, but can support your training needs. If you are new to the Royal United Hospital Bath you will start on our induction programme to help you settle in and you will learn the skills you need to do this role and we will start you working towards achieving the Care Certificate (if you do not already hold this qualification).
Main duties of the job
Successful candidate must be competent in completing vital signs,NEWS scores, venepuncture, cannulation and 12 lead ECG.
Preparing and recovering patients who had cardiac procedures under trained nurses supervision.
Must have excellent organisational and communication skills and will be integral the success of daily elective activities.
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
Clinical Healthcare Support Worker
Job Description
Band 3
Department: Cardiology Day case Unit (CDCU)
Speciality/Division: Cardiology/Medicine
About The Role
Our Clinical Healthcare Support Workers are integral to our nursing teams. It takes flexibility, commitment and compassion, but in return we can offer you a rewarding career where you can really make a difference.
You'll work under the guidance of a healthcare professional such as a nurse and your job will vary depending on the ward or department you are working in.
We provide all the training you need before you start working on one of our wards.
You will start on our healthcare support worker induction programme to learn the skills you need to be confident and competent to do this role, and we will start you working towards achieving the Care Certificate, if you do not already hold this qualification.
What you can expect to be doing in this role:
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.
You will be supporting registered nurses to deliver high quality, compassionate health care to people in accordance with assessed needs and a care plan.
This Is a Busy Role So You Will Be Working Together With Your Team To Balance Different Tasks That Often Change. Your Daily Duties Will Be Varied To Include:
We are passionate about patient experience. We know that some people find coming into hospital difficult.
Adapting how you communicate to meet the needs of patients, relatives, carers as well as colleagues with kindness and compassion is fundamental to how we work together. You will take care in handling patient and Trust property and may need to order supplies and restock.
You will help to support, train and welcome new colleagues, students and others to your area of work.
There will be opportunities to develop your knowledge and skills, specific to your needs and area of work. You will also be supported to obtain your care certificate if you do not already have this.
About you – what you’ll need to thrive in this role
Criteria Requirements
Qualifications And Training
You will have either: A Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) Level 3. This could be an NVQ, BTEC or equivalent international qualification in healthcare. Or You will be able to demonstrate the equivalent level of experience. Desirable: You may also have previous experience in healthcare and have your Care Certificate if not, we will support you to achieve this qualification within the first three months of joining us.
Knowledge and experience
You’ll need to be able to understand and communicate both verbally and in writing in English. You don’t need any formal qualifications in maths but you will need to have numerical and analytic skills to do patient observations. You’ll need to understand what these mean as you’ll be documenting the results in patient notes and communicating to your team. You’ll have experience working in a public-facing/customer care role or environment. You can work in a team environment. You will need to have a customer-focused approach which is essential to:
Desirable: You’ll have experience working in a health and social care role and NHS experience, understanding of NHS/social care systems.
Working in an hospital environment.
The role is physically demanding and can include standing for long periods of time. You will move and handle patients, equipment and other physical health care tasks. We welcome applications from all candidates and will make reasonable adjustments to accommodate your working life experience with the organisation. Due to the nature of the role, you will have frequent exposure to foul linen, fluids from the body and clinical waste. You will be supplied with appropriate protective equipment such as gloves. Tact and sensitivity will be essential in this role. There will be times when you see distressing situations which may include vulnerable, violent or aggressive patients. You may also care for patients at their end of life and support grieving relatives. You will be part of a team dealing with these situations and not alone.
Everyone matters at the RUH
We want to be an outstanding place for us to work in and our patients to be cared for in. By learning from and embracing diversity, we create stronger and more inclusive teams which helps us to provide better care to our patients as well as supporting the wellbeing of each other.
How we work together
As one team, we will live our values of everyone matters, working together to make a difference.
This enables us to provide the best possible care for the people we work with, people we care for and people in our community. You can find out more about our values and vision here
Our policies and procedures
These guide us in how to keep patients, carers, visitors, colleagues as well as all our information safe.
We embrace a culture of learning and curiosity with kindness and civility, free from blame to enable us to learn from incidents and continue to improve together.
Patient Experience
Ensuring our patients are cared for safely and have a positive experience is important to us.
No matter our role at the RUH, we can all make a difference to improving patient and family experience.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
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
Name Daisy Joseph Job title Junior Sister Email address [email protected] Telephone number 01225 825394 Additional information
CDCU
working hrs
Monday -Friday 7am -5 pm.
We are expanding our team of Clinical Healthcare Support Workers within our Cardiology Daycase Unit (CDCU) and we’re inviting caring, compassionate people who are happy to work as part of a large and inclusive team to join us.
If you're kind, caring and passionate about making a positive difference to others, this role could be for you. Our Clinical Health Care Support Workers are integral to our nursing team.
You will be a core member of the team delivering personal care to patients within CDCU. This is a Nurse led Unit open between the hours of 7am and 5pm Monday to Friday caring for a wide range of patients admitted for planned Cardiology Procedures. This ranges from a diagnostic angiogram to a Cardioversion to insertion of a complex device (ie Pacemaker). Every day is different and varied.
Many of our Clinical Healthcare Support Workers have progressed to become registered Nurses via the apprenticeship route, with full support from our nursing and education teams.
We prefer previous healthcare experience in this role, but can support your training needs. If you are new to the Royal United Hospital Bath you will start on our induction programme to help you settle in and you will learn the skills you need to do this role and we will start you working towards achieving the Care Certificate (if you do not already hold this qualification).
Main duties of the job
Successful candidate must be competent in completing vital signs,NEWS scores, venepuncture, cannulation and 12 lead ECG.
Preparing and recovering patients who had cardiac procedures under trained nurses supervision.
Must have excellent organisational and communication skills and will be integral the success of daily elective activities.
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
Clinical Healthcare Support Worker
Job Description
Band 3
Department: Cardiology Day case Unit (CDCU)
Speciality/Division: Cardiology/Medicine
About The Role
Our Clinical Healthcare Support Workers are integral to our nursing teams. It takes flexibility, commitment and compassion, but in return we can offer you a rewarding career where you can really make a difference.
You'll work under the guidance of a healthcare professional such as a nurse and your job will vary depending on the ward or department you are working in.
We provide all the training you need before you start working on one of our wards.
You will start on our healthcare support worker induction programme to learn the skills you need to be confident and competent to do this role, and we will start you working towards achieving the Care Certificate, if you do not already hold this qualification.
What you can expect to be doing in this role:
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.
You will be supporting registered nurses to deliver high quality, compassionate health care to people in accordance with assessed needs and a care plan.
This Is a Busy Role So You Will Be Working Together With Your Team To Balance Different Tasks That Often Change. 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 notes
We are passionate about patient experience. We know that some people find coming into hospital difficult.
Adapting how you communicate to meet the needs of patients, relatives, carers as well as colleagues with kindness and compassion is fundamental to how we work together. You will take care in handling patient and Trust property and may need to order supplies and restock.
You will help to support, train and welcome new colleagues, students and others to your area of work.
There will be opportunities to develop your knowledge and skills, specific to your needs and area of work. You will also be supported to obtain your care certificate if you do not already have this.
About you – what you’ll need to thrive in this role
Criteria Requirements
Qualifications And Training
You will have either: A Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) Level 3. This could be an NVQ, BTEC or equivalent international qualification in healthcare. Or You will be able to demonstrate the equivalent level of experience. Desirable: You may also have previous experience in healthcare and have your Care Certificate if not, we will support you to achieve this qualification within the first three months of joining us.
Knowledge and experience
You’ll need to be able to understand and communicate both verbally and in writing in English. You don’t need any formal qualifications in maths but you will need to have numerical and analytic skills to do patient observations. You’ll need to understand what these mean as you’ll be documenting the results in patient notes and communicating to your team. You’ll have experience working in a public-facing/customer care role or environment. You can work in a team environment. You will need to have a customer-focused approach which is essential to:
- Providing patients with the best possible experience
- Working together with colleagues and other teams across the Trust. You will need to be able to use IT systems and databases. You will have the skill to focus on the details with the ability to spot problems. You will know when you are able to correct or when to escalate. You’ll need to be adaptable in work as things change as part of working in a wider team.
Desirable: You’ll have experience working in a health and social care role and NHS experience, understanding of NHS/social care systems.
Working in an hospital environment.
The role is physically demanding and can include standing for long periods of time. You will move and handle patients, equipment and other physical health care tasks. We welcome applications from all candidates and will make reasonable adjustments to accommodate your working life experience with the organisation. Due to the nature of the role, you will have frequent exposure to foul linen, fluids from the body and clinical waste. You will be supplied with appropriate protective equipment such as gloves. Tact and sensitivity will be essential in this role. There will be times when you see distressing situations which may include vulnerable, violent or aggressive patients. You may also care for patients at their end of life and support grieving relatives. You will be part of a team dealing with these situations and not alone.
Everyone matters at the RUH
We want to be an outstanding place for us to work in and our patients to be cared for in. By learning from and embracing diversity, we create stronger and more inclusive teams which helps us to provide better care to our patients as well as supporting the wellbeing of each other.
How we work together
As one team, we will live our values of everyone matters, working together to make a difference.
This enables us to provide the best possible care for the people we work with, people we care for and people in our community. You can find out more about our values and vision here
Our policies and procedures
These guide us in how to keep patients, carers, visitors, colleagues as well as all our information safe.
We embrace a culture of learning and curiosity with kindness and civility, free from blame to enable us to learn from incidents and continue to improve together.
Patient Experience
Ensuring our patients are cared for safely and have a positive experience is important to us.
No matter our role at the RUH, we can all make a difference to improving patient and family experience.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- 2 years experience
- Experience in cardiology
- Experience in cardiology
- Experience in cardiology
Essential criteria
- 2 years experince
- Experience in cardiology
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
- Job description (PDF, 821.6KB)
- Join the RUH (PDF, 1.1MB)
Name Daisy Joseph Job title Junior Sister Email address [email protected] Telephone number 01225 825394 Additional information
CDCU
working hrs
Monday -Friday 7am -5 pm.
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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