Job overview

We’re looking for individuals with or without health and care experience join our Royal Surrey family in a fast paced, multidisciplinary hospital environment, with opportunities in:

•    Aging and Health
•    Stroke Services
•    Accident and Emergency
•    Same Day Emergency Care
•    Cardiology
•    Gastroenterology
•    Respiratory Services

No experience? No problem. We’ll teach you everything you need to know. To us, it’s more important that you’re a caring and kind person with a genuine desire to help and support patients and their families. If this sounds like you, then you already have the attributes that make a great healthcare support worker.

Right from the time you join us, you’ll have access to learning, development and training opportunities. As you progress in your NHS career you’ll acquire the knowledge, skills and confidence you need to provide safe and compassionate patient care.

Here at the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, we take pride in being a leading provider of NHS services in Surrey, committed to delivering high-quality patient care and supporting our staff to fulfil their true potential and ensuring patients receive expert, responsive care across a broad range of specialist services.

Please note this role does not meet the UKVI requirements for sponsorship.

Shift patterns include long days and night shifts on a 24/7, 365-day basis, including bank holidays and weekends.

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Assistant/Healthcare Support Worker, your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Supporting patients across specialist areas, including Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Respiratory, Stroke, Emergency, and Same Day Care services.
• Assisting with daily activities, including personal hygiene, mobility, and nutritional support. 
• Supporting clinical teams by collecting samples, conducting swabs, and monitoring fluid intake/output. 
• Observing and recording vital signs (e.g., temperature, pulse, blood pressure, oxygen saturation).
• Helping patients undergoing cardiac monitoring, respiratory therapy, and gastrointestinal treatments. 
• Using appropriate equipment to safely assist patient movement and care delivery. 
• Responding swiftly to patient needs in acute and emergency care settings.

Working for our organisation

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.

Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo