# Senior Healthcare Support Worker - ICU

**Company**: Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Chertsey
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**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 ICU team at Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. As a Senior Healthcare Support Worker, you will be responsible for providing high-quality patient care under the supervision of a registered nurse. Your duties will include:

- Assisting with direct patient care, ensuring the privacy and dignity of patients

- Demonstrating excellent care, compassion, and communication skills

- Supporting patients with continence management, nutrition, and hydration

- Undertaking and recording vital signs

- Moving and handling patients to support independence

- Infection prevention and control

- Safeguarding of adults and children

In addition to these core responsibilities, you will also be expected to:

- Assist with patient mobility and promote independence

- Follow all hospital policies to maintain high standards of infection prevention

- Complete the empty bedspace checklist

- Organise and restock supplies, escalating shortages as necessary

- Request and manage pathology orders

- Assist with admissions and run arterial blood gas and urinalysis tests

- Provide break relief for Level 1 and 2 patients

The salary for this role is £27,106 to £28,850 per annum.

As a valued member of our team, you will have access to a range of benefits, including the full range of NHS benefits and discounts.

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## Skills

### Required
- effective communication
- IT skills
- empathy and understanding
- team working
- infection prevention and control

### Nice to have
- healthcare support worker buddy
- basic knowledge of how the NHS works

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