Healthcare Support Worker Band 2

Health Care Support Worker Band 2 to band 3 progression (Full or Part Time) - Various departments across Whittington Health - Hospital Site We are looking for enthusiastic, kind and compassionate, motivated individuals to join our hospital teams in delivering a high standard of patient-centred care on our dynamic and friendly units. As important and vital members of our team, we know that you are often the first person our patients talk with and trust. We are keen to support you in this role and help you develop. Applicants will be supported on a training programme and paid at a Band 2 until their Band 3 competencies are signed off at which point you will be uplifted to a Band 3. You will be supported to achieve this by the HCSW Development team. You will have the opportunity to undertake the Care Certificate, and we have already had a significant number of candidates who have successfully gained their Care Certificate whilst working with us. If you are 18 or above and demonstrate empathy and compassion and share our ethos of maintaining patients' self-respect and dignity, we would be delighted to hear from you. If you are shortlisted, our recruitment and selection process for all candidates is as follows: You will be invited to undertake a literacy and numeracy test. If you are successful in passing our literacy and numeracy test you will be invited for interview. Please note your interview will be on a different day from the literacy and numeracy test, The post holder will uphold and display Trust values of Innovation, Compassion, Accountable, Respect, Excellence and Equity Communication

• Communicate clearly, effectively, and appropriately with the multidisciplinary team, patients, and their family/visitors/carers
• Provide basic information to patients, family/visitors/carers, and colleagues.
• Aware of the importance of accurate documentation and contribute to reports of patients' activity and progress.
Education and professional development
• Understand own level of responsibility and accountability in relation to trained staff.
• Identify own learning needs and produce a personal development plan in conjunction with the ward sister/charge nurse as part of your annual appraisal
• Take part in reflection and appropriate learning from practice, in order to maintain and develop competence and performance.
Risk and governance management
• Report any issues at work that may put health, safety, and security at risk.
• Summon immediate help for any emergency and take appropriate action to contain it
• Understand the principles and practice of Infection Control
Service development
• Ensure a welcoming, caring, and safe environment is provided for the patient and their family/visitors/carers.
• Aware of and maintains required standard of care.
• Ensure that patient areas are kept clean and tidy.
• Comply with Trust/local policies and procedures.
Professional and clinical responsibilities · Assist the patient to be as comfortable as possible, i.e., help with moving and positioning the patient, or mobilising the patient using appropriate equipment and handling techniques · Involve the patient in shared decision-making and obtain their consent before undertaking nursing procedures. · Support and encourage the patient to meet their own health and wellbeing needs. Information management
• Able to use IT (Information Technology) at a basic level to input and retrieve information.
Specific Requirements Candidate to have a flexible approach to shift patterns SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to: + Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. + Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures. + Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing. + Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines. + Participate in required training and supervision. + Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Your application form - 1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts. 2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria. Our processes - 1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay. 2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert. 3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder. 4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors. Other important information - + Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system. + Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities. + In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post. If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system. We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation