Job summary
- Main area
- Theatre
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 16 hours per week
- Job ref
- 040-ACS491-1224
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Nevill Hall Hospital
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Salary
- 拢23,970 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
CSS477 Health Care Support Worker - Nevill Hall Hospital
Band 2
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
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Job overview
The Day Surgery Unit is looking for a new member to join our team
We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Band 2 Theatre Assistant/ Health Care Support Worker to join our team at Nevil Hall Day Surgery Unit.
The Day Surgery Unit (DSU) has a high turnover currently running 5 Theatres, specialising in a range of surgical disciplines including Orthopaedics, General Surgery, Gynaecology, Plastics, Dermatology, Ophthalmology and Pain.
Main duties of the job
The role is an excellent opportunity to gain experience supporting team members within the surgical setting, assisting the qualified members of staff in providing safe pre and post operative care for patients by undertaking duties such as performing and recording accurate observations, assisting patients in the preparation for theatre, escorting patients to theatre, caring and treating patients post operatively and maintaining a clean, tidy and appropriately stocked ward area.
Appropriate training will be offered to the successful candidate in order to provide good quality individualised care.
Staff will be expected to support other sites within the health board if required. Therefore, the successful candidate must demonstrate flexibility within their service.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome.
Currently we are unable to provide certificates of sponsorship for this role as it does not meet the Home Office鈥檚 criteria. Anyone requiring a certificate of sponsorship is therefore unable to be shortlisted and interviewed.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020.听 Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
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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 鈥淎pply now鈥 to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 2 in Health and Social Care in a health care setting
Experience
Essential criteria
- To be able to Demonstrate Knowledge of the Role in your application
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in a Hospital Environment
Skills
Essential criteria
- IT Skills (basic)
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak Welsh
Personal attributes
Essential criteria
- Good verbal and written Communication
- Willingness to learn and take constructive criticism
- Flexible approach and hardworking and adaptable
- Caring and empathetic
- With training to be able cope with difficult and stressful situations.
- Interested in all aspects of the role as outlined in the job description
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the role in Theatres
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
- Emily Powell
- Job title
- Deputy Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01873 732035
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