Health Care Support Worker – Visa Sponsorship UK

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to recent changes in Immigration and Sponsorship rules, only those with at least two years relevant NHS experience in this role will currently meet the required salary threshold for Sponsorship. If you will require Sponsorship and you currently have a Visa under which you can work, but it is due to expire before you have been able to gain two years relevant NHS experience to meet the required salary threshold, the Trust will not be able to Sponsor you.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:

– applied for a Graduate visa

– or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment

– or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment

This vacancy will close at midnight on 15th January 2025

Interviews are due to be held on 24th January 2025

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Literacy and numeracy Level 2
• Completed Trust and band 2 competencies if internal applicant

Desirable

• Diploma level 2/3 in Care/Health or other relevant qualification

Experience

Essential

• Proven clinical practice within an acute setting as a Band 2 HCA

Skills

Essential

• Well-developed verbal and written communication
• Respects patient dignity, wishes and beliefs demonstrating behaviours that are caring and compassionate
• Ability to promote best practice
• Support and induct new junior colleagues and assist them to meet their performance standards
• Work as an effective and responsible member of the multidisciplinary team
• Ability to identify a need for and negotiate changes in practice within the team
• Good organisational skills with the ability to priorities a demanding workload in order to provide quality care to patients
• Maintenance of clinical competencies

Desirable

• Prepared to undertake a link role within directorate
• Prepared to undertake recognised mentoring/coaching role
• Reflective practitioner
• IT skills

Additional Requirements

Essential

• The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent

Desirable

• Responsible for training and inducting junior colleagues and assisting them to meet their performance standards

Knowledge

Essential

• Understands the importance of respect/6C’s
• Promote the importance of maintaining confidentiality
• Recognise the extent and limitation of own and others competence
• Use own initiative recognising when to escalate concerns to a senior member of staff
• Understands the importance of consistently providing individualised care based on current research and evidence
• Demonstrate awareness of the needs of area specific patient group
• Demonstrate awareness of the needs of area specific patient group
• Understanding of the anxiety and distress of some patients and relatives
• Basic anatomy and physiology

Desirable

• Awareness of national and local priorities and initiatives