Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Healthcare Support Worker
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Essential Requirements
- A valid Care Certificate issued by an NHS provider organisation (Care Certificates issued by private organisations are not accepted).
- An NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care qualification obtained from a UK college.
Applicants should ensure that they clearly demonstrate how they meet these requirements within their application.
Please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship or a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) for this post.
Role Description
The Senior HCA (HCSW) is part of the multidisciplinary team delivering care to patients. Support and supervision is provided by a Registered Professional.
The Senior HCA carries out a range of patient care tasks and duties to enable the team to provide an effective and efficient service within Acute hospital settings.
Responsibilities
- Competently perform the necessary aspects of care for patients.
- Ensure effective delivery of clinical care is provided to patients and that an acceptable standard is maintained.
- Follow Trust policies and provide a safe and person-centred environment for the treatment of patients.
- Participate in personal and practice development activities to maintain standards of care.
- Communicate/liaises with members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure high standards of patient care.
- Demonstrates care and compassion to patients’ carers and relatives to help ensure high-quality person-centred patient care is always delivered.
- Provide support to the Registered Professional and where appropriate, other members of the clinical team as required.
- To co-operate and maintain good relationships with the team colleagues and staff in other disciplines that are attending theatres and delivering patient care.
- To carry out a range of assigned patient care tasks as directed by a Registered Professional to ensure delivery of a high quality of patient care.
- To report observed changes in the patients’ physical/psychological needs to the Registered Professional.
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Khadijat Salami
- Job title: Day Care/Sapphire Ward- Manager
- Email address: k.salami@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07748930455
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