# Senior Healthcare Support Worker, Day Surgery (ASH)

**Company**: Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Ashford
**Salary**: £27106.00 to £28850.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Healthcare Support Worker to join our Day Surgery Unit at Ashford Hospital. As a Senior Healthcare Support Worker, you will be responsible for carrying out assigned tasks involved with direct patient care, whilst maintaining the privacy and dignity of patients. You will work under the supervision of a Registered Nurse/Midwife or Nursing Associate.

**Main Duties:**

- Admit patients and prepare them for Theatre lists

- Discharge Local anaesthetic patients

- Move and handle patients to support independence

- Infection Prevention and Control

- Safeguarding of adults and children

- Take and record vital signs or other parameters such as height/weight

- Cannulate or take blood samples

- Remove cannulas

- Take specimens/samples of any kind

- Simple dressings

- ECGs or set up cardiac monitoring

- Deal with oxygen administration

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Support patients through the pre-operative and post-operative pathway

- Assist nurses and the multidisciplinary team with patient care

- Carry out and record basic observations such as blood pressure, pulse, temperature, oxygen saturation, and NEWS scoring

- Help with patient admission and discharge processes

- Provide personal care, reassurance, dignity, and emotional support

- Prepare patients for theatre and assist with safe patient transfers

- Monitor patients after surgery and escalate concerns appropriately

- Maintain infection prevention and control standards

- Stock equipment and ensure clinical areas are clean and organised

- Complete documentation accurately and maintain confidentiality

- Support mobility, nutrition, hydration, and comfort needs

- Assist with clinical tasks within competency level, such as wound care, cannula removal, urine testing, or ECGs depending on local training

- Communicate effectively with patients, relatives, nurses, surgeons, anaesthetists, and recovery staff

- Participate in mandatory training and Band 3 competency development programmes

**Benefits:**

- Competitive salary: £27,106 to £28,850 per annum

- Full range of NHS benefits and discounts

**Requirements:**

- Functional level of English and Maths

- Care Certificate in Acute Care achieved through the NHS

- Level 3 qualification

**Desirable:**

- Level 3 Health and Social Care qualification

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## Skills

### Required
- Communication
- Infection Prevention and Control
- Safeguarding
- Vital Signs
- Patient Care
- Basic Observations
- Moving and Handling
- Documentation

### Nice to have
- Level 3 Health and Social Care qualification
- Venepuncture and cannulation duties
- ECGs

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