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Health Care Support Worker - Frome
Band 2
- Health Care Assistant
- Band 2
- Permanent: Includes nights and weekends
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time)
- 229-SUR-7596471
- Hereford County Hospital
- Hereford,
- £24,465 pa pro rata
- Yearly
- 27/11/2025 23:59
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Job overview
Health Care Support Worker – Permanent, Band 2 - Frome Ward - Emergency Surgery.
Frome Ward has 35 beds caring for General Surgical, Urology, Colo-Rectal and Upper GI patients.
The ward will receive all of the emergency General Surgical from A&E and clinics and also repatriated patients. The successful candidates will be expected to provide a high standard of care, have excellent communication skills and to be able to effectively respond to changing situations.
All new staff are supported by experienced staff and there are array of learning opportunities and training in new skills available. If you are up for a challenge please apply.
Main duties of the job
As a Health Care Support Worker, you will be a hugely valuable support to our Nursing and Midwifery teams providing care to our patients. Every day will be different and you will work alongside the rest of the team carrying out a wide range of tasks and assisting with care to support the needs of the patients and their families.
Examples of what you may do as part of your role:
- Washing and dressing patients
- Serving meals and feeding patients
- Helping patients to move around
- Making beds
- Talking to patients and their families
- Monitoring patient condition
Skills and personal attributes needed:
- Caring and kind
- Cheerful and friendly
- Keen to support patients with their personal needs including washing and toileting
- Able to follow direct instructions
- Happy to work in a team but also able to use own initiative
- Have good listening and communication skills
- Be well organised
Full time and part time positions are available. This opportunity is available for candidates who have the right to work in the UK. Applications from underrepresented groups including LGBT+, Ethnic Minority or disabled people are particularly welcome.
Working for our organisation
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”
Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view detailed Job Description and Person Specification for this role, please see attached supporting documents.
Please note: This vacancy maybe retracted as a result of being deemed suitable for the redeployment of internal staff.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate effectively in English, verbally and in writing
- Willingness to undertake the Maths and English Functional Skills qualifications if not already obtained
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to work towards Apprenticeship level 2/3 in Health & Social Care
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working with people
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience working in a care enviroment
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Flexible and adaptable to a changing environment
- Ability to work as part of a team as well as autonomously
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Effective and sensitive handling of difficult information
Other Factors
Essential criteria
- Able to meet moving and handling requirements of job with any aids or adaptions tat may be required
Skills Knowledge & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of personal care and related procedures
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate knowledge of roles and responsibilities within clinical setting
- Keyboard 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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kimberley Blackman
- Job title
- Frome Ward Sister
- Email address
- kimberley.blackman@wvt.nhs.uk
- Telephone number
- 01432 355444
- Additional information
For more information please contact Kimberley Blackman - Frome Ward Sister on kimberley.blackman@wvt.nhs.uk or 01432 355444 Ext 2388 or Niki Smith - Frome Clinical Lead on nicola.smith@wvt.nhs.uk or 01432 355444 Ext 1614
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