OverviewAre you an experienced Healthcare Support Worker looking for opportunities to progress? Are you keen to learn more about palliative care and develop your skills? Do you want to work in a rewarding setting? If the answer is yes then read on!

We are recruiting Senior Healthcare Support Workers to join our inpatient nursing team on the Oncology Ward. We’re looking for an experienced Healthcare Support Worker with excellent interpersonal and communication skills who is keen to learn and take on new clinical skills to work alongside our nursing teams. We are looking for an enthusiastic, committed and professional approach to the delivery of care, ensuring the best patient and family experience. Candidates should be excellent team players with the ability to use their own initiative and judgement to resolve issues. They should also have a tactful, sensitive manner, work well under pressure, with a flexible approach and a willingness to suggest ideas for improvements. Previous Healthcare Support Workers experience and successful completion of the Care Certificate (or equivalent healthcare qualification) is essential, along with an ability to demonstrate compassion and a commitment to learning new skills.

The successful candidate can look forward to working in a professional supportive environment with a team that is passionate about delivering excellent care to patients and support for their families.

For further details please contact:

Ward Manager: Arisha Klapiscak (arisha.klapiscak@ouh.nhs.uk)

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

For a full overview of the role and person specification, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Responsibilities

Undertake a range of delegated and specific clinical skills for patients that demonstrate an enhanced level of competency /technical expertise documented in the plan of care (see specific clinical skills).

Prepare patients, families/carers and the environment for clinical activities supporting and reassuring patients and their families/carers and preparing specific equipment as necessary.

Monitor closely patients having undergone a clinical activity ensuring their safety, comfort and well being.

To assist all patients of all genders with their personal care needs, empowering patients, and/or families/carers and actively encouraging participation. This may involve maintaining hygiene needs for individuals such as helping patients to wash and dress themselves and assisting with toileting needs, maintaining privacy and dignity at all times.

To assess and monitor the patient’s skin integrity and to report and document immediately any changes or concerns in their condition.

To demonstrate clinical competence in order to undertake minor dressings and treatment and as specified in the plan of care and in consultation with the registered practitioner.

To actively encourage all patients, families/carers to share the responsibility for maintenance of their health and to promote healthy living where appropriate and identified as part of the care plan.

Assist patients to mobilise safely taking account of developmental/physical needs, using equipment and techniques as prescribed and recorded in plan of care and contribute to the falls and moving and handling risk assessment.

This advert closes on Thursday 28 Aug 2025.

Qualifications

Previous Healthcare Support Worker experience

Successful completion of the Care Certificate (or equivalent healthcare qualification) is essential

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Keen to learn and take on new clinical skills

Enthusiastic, committed and professional approach to the delivery of care

Excellent team player with the ability to use initiative and judgement to resolve issues

Tactful, sensitive manner; able to work well under pressure with a flexible approach

Willingness to suggest ideas for improvements

Compassion and a commitment to learning new skills

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