Job overview

***Potential Band 2 development opportunity to progress to a Band 3***

‘’Do you want to make a difference to people’s lives?

This is a fantastic opportunity for support workers to develop a career in the NHS as a band 3 Health Care Support Worker in the community.

WVT are also providing the opportunity for band 2 to band 3 career development and pay progression opportunities, subject to experience and competencies achieved. If at interview you are offered a band 2 position we will support you through the progression route to become a band 3 on completion of competencies

You will be given the opportunity to learn new skills and knowledge required to become competent in supporting patients across community settings.’’

To provide effective individualised patient care as delegated by the Hospital@Home Nursing Team.

To facilitate multidisciplinary patient centred care. To maintain the safety, dignity and well-being of people in your care at all times.

Main duties of the job

• Assist qualified Nursing staff in a range of patient care duties.
• To undertake a range of delegated nursing tasks, including cannulation and taking blood or urine samples, carrying out basic wound assessments and applying simple dressings, taking routine observations and supporting clients with medication.
• To record patient information.
• To provide planned patient care.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.