Perioperative Care Support Worker

To provide support to registered and qualified staff/patients during the peri operative journey. See main duties.,

• Communicate with a range of patients with differing needs, including overcoming any barriers to understanding such as deafness / language difficulties.
• Provide support/reassurance to patients referring any essential information/ questions/concerns to registered professionals.
• Communicate with other health professionals to perform delegated duties to ensure a safe service.
• Participate in Patient Safety steps for example briefs, time out, debriefs.
• Pass information to other healthcare staff to ensure patient safety and continuity of care.
• Undertake induction and competency-based programmes to perform delegated supervised duties.
• Complete statutory and mandatory training.
• Follow policies/procedures/ guidelines/protocols/safe systems of work.
• Only working within delegated duties under supervision of registered staff / following schedules of work.
• Alerting registered staff to any missing or incomplete documentation/ relevant patient safety information when performing patient checks.
• Identifying whether items are sterile /disinfected and reporting compliance to standards.
• Performing in conjunction with registered staff swab, needle, instrument and item counts alerting registered staff of any inconsistencies.
• Report to registered staff deviations or trends from baseline basic physiological monitoring of patients.
• Reporting faulty equipment and any alert hazard alarms on equipment to registered staff.
• Instigate basic resuscitation after sending for help.
• Follow schedules of work.
  
  The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
  
  Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.