Job overview

Do you want to make a difference to people’s lives?

We are looking for individuals with experience in healthcare, to join the NHS family helping people from your local community.  

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

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 working in Surgical Same Day Emergency Care and you will work alongside a team of highly experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioners, carrying out a wide range of tasks and assisting with care to support the needs of the patients and their families.

Mid and South Essex is a great place to work, offering a working environment with an inclusive culture that looks after and values our people and creates a sense of belonging. We encourage applications from people who embrace our values and who will enable us to expand our diverse workforce.

The Healthcare Support Worker role can also lead to a range of career opportunities. With the right support, those who want to can undertake the necessary training to become our future nurses, nursing associates and midwives.

Main duties of the job

• Main duties within this role include the following
  
  • Demonstrate confidence and proficiency in venepuncture and cannulation.
  • Effective and confident telephone communication skills. Able to converse with patients, relatives and other members of multidisciplinary team with ease.
  • Comfortable with or eager to learn, a variety of clinical and administrative systems.
  • Assisting with clinical tasks, including but not limited to; dressings, specimen collection, observations.
  • Assess patients and demonstrate timely escalation of deteriorating/unwell patients to the Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP’s)
  • Previous experience in an acute/surgical setting desirable
  • Assisting and co-ordinating with patient flow, liaising with radiology and inpatient settings to arrange safe transfer of care.
  • Reliable, punctual and adaptable to changing clinical need in a fast paced environment.
• Skills and personal attributes needed
  • Caring and kind
  • 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 position 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.

** We look forward to hearing from you and wish you good luck **

Working for our organisation

The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together key health, care, community, and voluntary sector organisations from across our area. Our aim is to work together in partnership to join up health and care services, improving our populations health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. One such example of this collaborative work is the launch of our HCA Academy, an ICS initiative between Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) and Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT) to support the incoming Health Care assistant (HCA) workforce. The academy models a ‘one workforce’ cross system approach to the onboarding, induction, education, and experience of Healthcare Assistants.

Successful candidates to this role will be able to access the additional support provided by the HCA Academy following their induction with MSEFT. This includes development opportunities, pastoral support, staff rewards and access to HCA exclusive resources such as HCA App.