Skip to main content

This site is independent of the NHS and the Department of Health.

Please wait, loading

Job summary

Main area
Trauma and Orthopaedic Unit
Grade
Band 2
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift work across days and nights)
Job ref
110-ACS165-0625
Employer
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Glamorgan Hospital
Town
Llantrisant
Salary
£23,970 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
25/06/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board logo

Health Care Support Worker, Trauma and Orthopaedic Ward

Band 2

We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000.  We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.

Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.

We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed

Job overview

The Trauma and Orthopaedic (T+O) Ward are looking for an enthusiastic health care support worker who wants to make a difference. 

The T+O ward admit from the Emergency Department, and the major trauma unit in Cardiff,  It is an extremely busy unit comprising of the Trauma Assessment Unit. 

Exceptional team working is essential to this role, along with a warm and friendly bedside manner and the ability to work in a high-pressure area.  Previous experience in a hospital/acute setting is beneficial but we accept applications from those without hospital care experience. 

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This means Speaking & Listening at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2). We don’t need fluency. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see the ‘Croeso Candidate’ booklet below.

English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply

Main duties of the job

The successful candidates will be responsible for assisting the qualified nurses to meet the basic nursing needs of the patients in their care, as well as working from their own initiative  and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced working environment. 

You will need to have outstanding communication skills - you will be part of a team of fellow HCSW's,  physician's assistants, qualified nurses and nurse practitioners, junior Doctors and consultants. You will be expected to communicate with these members of the team along with liaising with our ward clerks on admissions, transfers and discharges. 

Your day to day routine will consist of but is not limited to: meeting patients hygiene and toileting needs, serving meals and assisting patients to eat and drink, taking and recording of vital observations, blood glucose levels, maintaining good levels of stock and PPE, assisting with wound dressings, disposing of hazardous waste safely and correctly and documenting in patients notes. 

You will be expected to have a good standard of literacy and numeracy, due to being required to document about the patients skin  and the taking and recording of vital signs.

There will be the opportunity to further develop with training and education, we enrol all of our HCSW's on to basic life support training, and there will be opportunities to train to take blood glucose levels. 

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Good level of education
  • Excellent communication skills
Desirable criteria
  • NVQ level 2 or equivalent

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Good understanding of role
Desirable criteria
  • Able to demonstrate what role entails

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Previous experience of Health care setting
Desirable criteria
  • Hospital experience

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Working with care of elderly patients
Desirable criteria
  • Skills in caring for patients in a ward environment
  • Welsh language skills Speaking/Listening Level 3 or higher

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Age positiveDisability confident leaderStop Smoking Wales is the NHS Smoking Cessation Service in WalesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.hyderus o ran anableddAccredited Living Wage EmployerWelsh logo for Armed Force Bronze Award for Cym Taf UHBAccredited Living Wage EmployerCore principlesPrentisiaethau Apprenticeships

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Welsh language skills are desirable

Documents to download

Apply online now

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Claire Griffiths
Job title
Ward Manager / Rheolwr y Ward
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01443 443516
Additional information

Jodie Maddison 

Apply online nowAlert me to similar vacancies