As a Healthcare Support Worker, you’ll work under the guidance of a Registered Nurse or healthcare professional on one of our busy adult or child wards or outpatient areas.  You will help our nurses and doctors at UHS, by offering the highest standards of personal care and support to our patients. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Role 1 – Early Pregnancy and Gynaecology Assessment Unit  20 hours per week - Hiring Manager:   katherine.symcoxgreen@uhs.nhs.uk

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a small, friendly and dedicated team at the Princess Anne Hospital as an experienced Healthcare Support Worker, working closely with the nursing staff within the Early Pregnancy and Gynaecology Assessment Unit. We are seeking a part‑time, flexible individual to become an integral part of this service. This role is essential in delivering a comprehensive service for both inpatients and outpatients, ensuring compliance with waiting time standards while providing first‑class support to patients, their relatives and carers, as well as colleagues across UHS and external agencies. The Early Pregnancy and Gynaecology Assessment Unit is a busy outpatient environment responsible for assessing and advising women experiencing complications in early pregnancy (up to 19+6 weeks) and acute gynaecological presentations. We are looking for a part‑time, adaptable team member who can support a service currently operating Monday to Saturday, 8:30am–7pm.

Role 2 - Pre‑Assessment team  – Part time 15 hours per week- Hiring Manager: victoria.sendall@uhs.nhs.uk

An opportunity has arisen for a motivated and experienced Healthcare Support Worker to join our small, friendly Pre‑Assessment team within the Women and Newborn Care Group at the Princess Anne Hospital. Our pre‑assessment clinic supports patients preparing for surgery within the breast and gynaecology pathways. The service operates Monday to Friday between 7:30am and 5pm, with the possibility of weekend working in the future. Applicants must be flexible and able to work three days per week within these hours. The department consistently receives excellent feedback from patients and visitors, and we are proud of several recent positive reviews of the service. In this role, you will work within the “fit and well” pre‑operative assessment service, reviewing and triaging patient health questionnaires and completing pre‑assessments for this patient group. You will work closely with the Nurse‑Led Pre‑Assessment team and anaesthetists, playing a key part in ensuring patients experience a smooth, supportive and high‑quality journey throughout their surgical pathway. Due to the nature of the services provided and the need to maintain privacy and dignity, we welcome female candidates to apply.

Previous experience as a HCA is essential, as is an NVQ level 3 or equivalent, to ensure understanding and that they have skillset required as they will be required from the offset to be able to do:

• Observations
• ECG
• Urinalysis
• Venesection

Within the first 4-6 weeks they will then be expected to: 

• Have IT skills to use eCamis/CHARTS to check clinics, scan and request
• Under supervision run a pre-assessment clinic for the low-risk patients prior to surgery assessing their health questionnaire and giving information for day of surgery.
• Triage health questionnaires using criteria to ensure streaming of patients to correct pathway
• Understanding of surgical pre-assessment or women's health is therefore desirable

Role 3 – Day Surgery Unit – Full time 37.5 hours per week - Hiring Manager: valentia.burnett@uhs.nhs.uk

We are looking to appoint a passionate and dynamic experienced health care support worker t to work in an award winning team in the Day Surgery Unit in the Princess Anne Hospital. As a part of Women and Newborn care group, Day Surgery Unit is a small friendly unit in charge of admission and discharge of patients undergoing gynaecology and breast surgeries, from simple to more complex procedures. It enjoys the compliment of a very experienced and organised team of both registered nurses and health care assistants, with  the clinical experience to care and look after our patients pre and post-operatively.