Job summary
- Main area
- Renal Dialysis
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-6385461
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £22,383 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 08/08/2024
Employer heading
Clinical Support Worker- Renal
NHS AfC: Band 2
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Clinical Support Worker - Renal Units who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
We are a friendly and welcoming unit caring for patients with acute and chronic kidney disease.
You will work as an integral part of the team and demonstrate a willingness to develop the knowledge and skills required to assist in caring for renal haemodialysis patients under the supervision of a registered nurse.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
In this role you will be responsible for communicating clearly, effectively, and appropriately with the multidisciplinary team, patients and their family, visitors and carers.
To assist nursing staff in maintaining patients’ well-being and dignity in a safe environment and in maintaining patient confidentiality and dignity.
You will Involve patients and carers/relatives in the delivery of care and provide reassurance and support to patients and carers/family.
To help with cleaning and preparing all necessary equipment’s for patients’ and report any damaged or faulty equipment’s to the nurse in charge.
Move patients, machinery and goods in accordance with East & North Herts NHS Trust policies and procedures, whilst identifying and minimising the risks involved.
Assist in the assessment of health care needs by undertaking those physiological observations that have been delegated by the registered nurse and report any concerns in a timely manner.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Good Basic education
- Willingness to successfully complete the level 2 apprenticeship and QCF as identified by department (or equivalent qualification) within 12 months of employment.
- Willingness to successfully complete the relevant renal competencies for the role
- Previous experience in a health care setting
- Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with individuals of varying levels of understanding
- Ability to work within a team.
- Demonstrates a flexible approach to work
- Understanding of quality and change in the clinical setting.
Desirable criteria
- Health related level 2 apprenticeship and QCF (or equivalent qualification
- Basic IT skills or willingness to develop
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to be supportive
- To be able to communicate information in a timely, concise and accurate manner
- Self-motivated.
- Able to travel across site
- Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
- Role model our Trust values every day
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shiji Sivan
- Job title
- Nurse Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438284669
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