Job summary
- Main area
- Theatres
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (These roles will cover a 7 day service. Shift pattern will be: Days 08:00-18:00 Long days 08:00-20:30 Nights 20:30-08:30 and a make-up shift on occasions 08:00-14:00)
- Job ref
- 110-ACS187-0725
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Prince Charles Hospital
- Town
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Salary
- £24,833 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Perioperative Care Support Worker
Band 2
Thank you for your interest in joining Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) University Health Board.
Located in the heart of South Wales, we’re central to Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea. Deeply rooted in our community, as an NHS organisation we are dedicated to providing compassionate patient care and building healthier communities together.
At CTM, you’ll be part of a supportive, inclusive team from diverse nations, cultures, and backgrounds. Every role counts, every person matters, and together, we’re creating a space where everyone can thrive.
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The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2025/2026 and will be implemented in August 2025 with arrears backdated to 1st April 2025 where applicable.
Job overview
We have an opportunity for a motivated individual to join our busy team as part of the Theatres service in Prince Charles Hospital supporting with the care of patients during their peri-operative journey.
The successful candidate will provide support to registered staff, patients, and colleagues during their peri-operative journey.
As well as direct patient care, you will be involved with preparing and checking equipment, carrying out safety checks, ensuring clinical areas and equipment are cleaned and restocked, and helping to collect and return patients to the ward areas.
You should be a diligent, compassionate individual who is a team player and have good communication and organisation skills.
Main duties of the job
Communicate with a range of patients with differing needs, including overcoming any barriers to understanding such as deafness / language difficulties
Provide support/reassurance to patients referring any essential information/ questions/concerns to registered professionals
Communicate with other health professionals to perform delegated duties to ensure a safe service
Participate in Patient Safety steps for example briefs, time out, debriefs
Undertake induction and competency-based programmes to perform delegated supervised duties
Complete statutory and mandatory training
Follow policies/procedures/ guidelines/protocols/safe systems of work
Only working within delegated duties under supervision of registered staff / following schedules of work
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.
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.
Person specification
Qualifications/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Vocational qualification Level 2 or above
- Knowledge of personal care and related procedures
Desirable criteria
- IT literate
Experience
Essential criteria
- Worked in health or social care sector or experience of delivering care
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working in the NHS Theatre/wards/critical care
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Awareness of health and safety
- Ability to follow policies and procedures
- Working within a team
Desirable criteria
- Welsh language speaking/listening skills at Level 3 or above
Values
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the NHS Wales values
- Integrating improvement into everyday working
Other
Essential criteria
- Flexible approach to work
- Ability to work shifts/nights/out of hours cover
- Able to travel to other hospitals in a timely manner if required
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nigel Sparks
- Job title
- Perioperative care support worker team leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01685 728425
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