Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust’s beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.

Are you the kind of person who always puts patients first? Are you a team player? Are you always looking to improve our patients' well-being?

If this is you, you could become a Healthcare Support Worker at St Mary's Hospital (Isle of Wight) - you could be new to Health and Social Care, or an experienced support worker, we would love to hear from you!

Healthcare Support Workers (HCSW) are essential providers of everyday care for our patients. The HCSW role is rewarding, it's the kind of job where you will need to be organised, adaptable, resilient, and hardworking. You will have great prioritisation skills, good observational skills and have empathy for others.

Working with us, you will witness first-hand the positive impact your caring nature and efforts will make on our hospital. You will need to be willing to be hands-on with our patients.

You will start your career with us by taking part in our full time two week induction programme, designed to support you in finding your feet within our organisation, and enable you to feel part of the team. The induction program leads to the Care Certificate.

The HCSW role includes a variety of working patterns which attract shift allowances.

Please upload a copy of Maths and English qualifications along with your applications.

Key Responsibilities:

Under the supervision of registered healthcare professionals, you will be assisting the team with the provision of clinical care for a defined group of patients. In addition, you will take all possible steps to safeguard the welfare, safety and security of patients, visitors, and staff.

Typical day-to day duties include:

• Providing care for patients, helping to maintain their personal hygiene, which will sometimes include handling of bodily fluids and excrete.
• Providing physical comfort for patients, whilst ensuring their privacy and dignity is always maintained
• Washing and dressing patients, and helping them to safely move around
• Serving meals and help with feeding
• Assisting with cleaning tasks and making beds
• Monitoring patient conditions and report to senior team
• Recording information to patient administration systems and assist with other administrative duties

Most importantly, you will ensure patient experience is positive by treating all patients, relatives, and colleagues in accordance with Trust values. For a full list of roles and responsibilities, please see the job description. 

• English and Maths at Level 1 Functional Skills or GCSE equivalent  (Please upload a copy of Maths and English qualifications along with your applications).
• Desire to deliver compassionate hands-on care in a hospital environment

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.