Care Support WorkerinSloughinSloughPUBLISHED TUE 1 APR 2025

Job Overview

We are recruiting for a Healthcare Assistant to join us on Ward 11.

You will be required to carry out clinical and non clinical duties under the supervision of the registered nurse.

This post is for shift work, including weekdays, nights and weekends.

Main duties of the job

• Support the team with the delivery of high-quality care to all patients during their stay.
• Liaise promptly and with the nurse in charge any concerns with regards to patients’ wellbeing.
• Assist patients with their nutritional requirements.
• Maintain clear and accurate documentation under supervision of a registered nurse, raising issues of concern with a qualified nurse where appropriate.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached for more information.

Person specification

Specific Competencies for the role

Essential criteria

• Basic Computer Skills
• Communication- English (Verbal and Written)
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Demonstrate organizational skills
  
  

Personal/ intrerpersonal skills

Essential criteria

• Respectful/ Professional to patients, families, colleagues
• Flexibility (working hours)
  
  

Desirable criteria

• assertive and confident
  
  

Education/Qualification

Essential criteria

• Knowledge and experience
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Care certificate
• Experience in healthcare setting
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment .

Our three core values , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future .

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