Healthcare Support Worker Opportunities

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Thank you for considering a role at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Royal Papworth Hospital is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, treating around 50,000 patients each year. The Trust has been rated 'outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC)

It's a great time to apply to join our incredible organisation: The Trust's world-wide reputation and opportunities to gain exceptional training and experience have ensured highly successful nurse recruitment campaigns. We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity to apply to join the Royal Papworth Hospital family once more.

Contained in this pack is a role profile for a Healthcare Support Worker at Royal Papworth Hospital.

You will need the following attributes:

Highly motivated, enthusiastic and a willingness to learn
Excellent communication skills
Willingness to complete Care Certificate training (if not already qualified)

There are currently opportunities in:

Respiratory Medicine
Cardiology
Surgery
Catheter Laboratories (Cath Labs)
Outpatients
Critical Care
Day Ward

If you can bring fresh perspectives to the challenges we face whether through your background as someone from a UK ethnic minority or you live with a disability (visible or not), are open about your faith, religion or belief or about being LGBT, your application will receive a warm welcome.

We expect staff to uphold our values of Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration at all times. This means that we are committed to recruiting the right people: people with the skills, behaviours and competencies to achieve high standards of patient care in a specialist centre, pioneering interventions and improvements.

We look forward to receiving your application

Please use the link to NHS Jobs to complete and submit your application and note the information below.

In your Supporting Information , please include:

why you wish to work at Royal Papworth Hospital
how you will support the Trust values if you are successful at interview and join the Trust
how you meet the essential criteria set out in the role profile

Closing date: 19th December 2021 (midnight)
** We reserve the right to close this vacancy once sufficient applications have been received**

Priority consideration will be given to NHS Employees who have been declared at risk of redundancy.

The support and benefits available to staff include:
NHS Pension Scheme, extensive retail discount scheme, subsidised restaurant, staff recognition and award scheme, membership options at Frank Lee Centre Leisure & Fitness (campus gym), salary sacrifice 'cycle to work' and 'car' scheme, enhanced pay progression for Band 5 nurses, career progression opportunities, flexible working

We welcome all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex and sexual orientation. Applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum criteria for the post. The Trust operates job share and flexible working. We are a Smoke Free Hospital.

In submitting an application form you authorise Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS Service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.