Healthcare Support WorkerNHS

Job summary

At InHealth, we're expanding our Endoscopy team and are looking for a compassionate and dedicated Healthcare Support Worker to join us at our static site in Witney. This is an excellent opportunity to play a vital role in delivering high-quality patient care within a supportive and professional environment. This position is worked over four days per week, with shifts typically running from 8:00am to 6:00pm. Flexibility to participate in a weekend rota is essential.

Main duties of the job

• Welcoming patients to the clinic in a warm, professional, and reassuring manner.
• Acting as a patient advocate, ensuring privacy, dignity, and wellbeing are maintained at all times.
• Supporting the clinical team by cleaning, monitoring, and maintaining equipment, reporting any faults or concerns promptly.
• Recording and communicating relevant patient information and observations to senior colleagues.
• Delivering care in line with individual patient care plans under the guidance of the nursing team.
• Building positive relationships with patients, relatives, and members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Demonstrating a positive and professional attitude while delivering outstanding patient-centred care.

Job description

Healthcare Support Worker - Endoscopy

Full Time | 4 Days per Week | 8:00am - 6:00pm

At InHealth, we're expanding our Endoscopy team and are looking for a compassionate and dedicated Healthcare Support Worker to join us at our static site in Witney. This is an excellent opportunity to play a vital role in delivering high-quality patient care within a supportive and professional environment.

This position is worked over four days per week, with shifts typically running from 8:00am to 6:00pm. Flexibility to participate in a weekend rota is essential.

What You'll Be Doing

As a Healthcare Support Worker, you'll support the delivery of exceptional endoscopy services, helping to ensure every patient receives outstanding care throughout their journey.

Key responsibilities include:

• Welcoming patients to the clinic in a warm, professional, and reassuring manner.
• Acting as a patient advocate, ensuring privacy, dignity, and wellbeing are maintained at all times.
• Supporting the clinical team by cleaning, monitoring, and maintaining equipment, reporting any faults or concerns promptly.
• Recording and communicating relevant patient information and observations to senior colleagues.
• Delivering care in line with individual patient care plans under the guidance of the nursing team.
• Building positive relationships with patients, relatives, and members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Demonstrating a positive and professional attitude while delivering outstanding patient-centred care.

About You

We're looking for someone who is passionate about helping others and committed to providing an excellent patient experience.

You'll ideally have:

• A genuine interest in healthcare and delivering patient-centred care.
• Experience working in a care, healthcare, or patient-facing environment.
• A good understanding of health and safety and infection prevention and control practices.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organisational and time management abilities.
• Flexibility to meet the needs of the service, including participation in a weekend rota.
• A commitment to continuous learning, development, and maintaining professional competencies.

About us

InHealth is the UKs largest specialist provider of diagnostic and healthcare solutions, working in partnership with the NHS for more than 30 years to make healthcare better for more than 5 million patients each year.

Behind every test, scan and assessment is a team of people helping our services run smoothly, efficiently and with care. With opportunities across community, hospital and office-based settings, InHealth offers the chance to grow your career in a people-focused organisation where your work supports millions of patients and helps bring high-quality healthcare closer to local communities.

InHealth is a place where you're trusted to do your job well, supported by people who value your expertise and give you the space to act on it. Teams show up for each other, leaders back your judgment and help remove blockers rather than create them.

New opportunities open as we grow - whether that's progressing, moving sideways or taking on something different as your strengths evolve. And everything we do is focussed on making healthcare better - for patients, partners and the people delivering care.

Read more about us here: Who We Are - InHealth Group