Clinical Support Worker - Ophthalmology

We have an opportunity for Healthcare Support Worker (HCSW) to join our friendly Ophthalmology Outpatient Team

You will work with a team of doctors, nurses, specialist teams and other Healthcare Support Workers to care for Ophthalmology patients., The Band 3 Clinical Support Worker will undertake high quality, caring and compassionate personal care and associated duties under the direction but not direct supervision of the registered staff and working as part of the multi-disciplinary team.

As a Band 3 Clinical Support Worker (CSW) you make a valuable and important contribution to the delivery of high quality healthcare, supporting the registered professional in the delivery of safe, effective, compassionate patient care. This job description is to be read in conjunction with the person specification for this particular job.

It is essential that you are able to work well as a member of a multidisciplinary team and possess good verbal and written communication skills.

You will gain the opportunity to learn and develop Band 3 skills on a daily basis to assist the team in providing excellent patient care.

The unit is open Monday-Friday including some evenings.

A working knowledge of Ophthalmology would be an advantage but not essential.

The successful candidate is required to be able to demonstrate the Trust values, the responsibilities of the job description and person specification.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.