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Day Case Surgery
Grade
Band 2
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday between the hours of 07:30 and 22:00)
Job ref
110-ACS147-0625
Employer
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Prince Charles Hospital
Town
Merthyr Tydfil
Salary
£23,970 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/06/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board logo

Health Care Support Worker

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

We are seeking  highly motivated health care support workers to join our Day Surgery Unit team  at Prince Charles Hospital. 

You will work alongside the Ward Manager, the Deputy Ward Manager and Registered Nurses on this busy, challenging Unit.

You will be responsible for supporting the registered staff in delivering high quality nursing care for all patients requiring care intervention. 

Main duties of the job

To be successful you will possess:

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- To be Self Motivated, organised and flexible in your approach

- The ability to work on your own using your initiative, whilst demonstrating good team working skills and behaviours in order to be part of an already established team

- A clear vision for best practice

- An ability to develop relationships across professional and Organisational boundaries.

You will be supported during your orientation and development.

Ongoing support will be provided through team meetings and development days.

You can expect to have regular contact with the Ward Manager regarding your development.

You will have access to further study and opportunities to expand your role in line with service development.

 

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

Aptitude and Abilities Skills

Essential criteria
  • Good communication skills
  • Able to demonstrate a positive and caring attitude to all patients, relatives and members of staff in a calm manner

Experience

Desirable criteria
  • Previous care responsibilities

Qualifications and/or Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Good standard of general education including numeracy and literacy skills, with a commitment to undertake training to QCF Level 2 in Health and Social Care/Clinical Healthcare Support

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 not necessary

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Martine Lawrence
Job title
DSU Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01685 728196
Additional information

Jade Jones 

Deputy Team Leader

 

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