Healthcare Support Worker

The Acute Care team at the Royal London Hospital are passionate about getting it right for patients and their families. To achieve this, we are looking to appoint an outstanding individual to the post of Healthcare Support Worker within the Acute Admissions Unit (AAU). We admit patients directly from A&E and ambulatory care to our 52 bedded AAU and aim to provide an exceptional standard of care whilst maintaining the flow of patients throughout the hospital., The Senior Healthcare Support Worker will be an integral part of the ward/department team actively taking part in meeting the needs of patients and of the service in accordance with agreed standards under direct supervision of the registered nurses, nurse associates and midwives. The post holder will develop essential competencies though training and practice to ensure safety and quality are the priority.

We are looking to recruit staff who have experience of delivering care in an acute setting.

You will have excellent communication skills, be caring and compassionate at all times and thrive in a very busy environment.

As a healthcare assistant your role will be to help the qualified nurses assess, plan deliver and evaluate high standards of care to patients.

The applicant needs to demonstrate and establish good clinical skills and show that they could work independently without direct supervision.

We are looking for candidates for a full time post, the shift pattern is a mixture of days and nights over weekdays and weekends.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.