Job summary
- Main area
- Phlebotomy
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-6688851-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- stirchley medical practice
- Town
- stirchley
- Salary
- £23,615 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Healthcare Support Worker
Band 2
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicant who require a visa to work in the UK, providing the role you’ve been recruited to meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
From 4 April 2024 overseas workers requiring a general Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) but sponsored by an NHS organisation will need to meet the new salary threshold of £38,700. In addition, applications to the Health and Care Visa route for those occupations paid by NHS bands that are on the immigration salary, a list of skilled jobs which have lower salary requirements, will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the new minimum salary threshold of £23,200 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.
Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list
https://www.gov.uk/health-care-worker-visa/different-salary-requirements
Job overview
You will be required to work as part of a busy community nursing team based around all areas of Telford who provide nursing care to patients who are housebound in the community. The post requires you to have a full UK driving licence and your own car. You must have excellent phlebotomy skills and experience in phlebotomy for this role as completing blood samples will be the main clinical tasks required.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Main duties of the job
- Providing patient care to patients within the community, often in patients own homes.
- Undertake delegated wound care and wound photography for patients with simple / routine care needs with appropriate training according to plan of care for the patient.
- Provide delegated simple continence support to patients such as catheter management education with appropriate training according to the plan of care for the patient.
- Work under the supervision of a community nurse escalating any patient risks or deviation to the plan of care when required.
- To organise own phlebotomy workload in the most time effective way whilst meeting the priority time scale requested by the referrer.
- Undertake community phlebotomy within the priority timescale requested by the referrer and to patients who are unable to access a phlebotomy clinic, escalating any inappropriate referrals to the service.
- Obtain specimen samples as directed and ensure all specimens are transported to the laboratory or point of sample collection within Trust policy and procedures.
- Assist in the holistic care of patients by escalating any concerns with the patients wider physical, social, psychological care needs / activities of daily living.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Person specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the role of the health care assistant role in context, including phlebotomy.
- Good interpersonal skills (written and oral).
- Knowledge of situations and circumstances that can impact on patient safety and demonstrate understanding of how the healthcare support worker contributes to maintaining patient safety.
- The ability to communicate effectively with patients and staff both written and orally and demonstrate a level of English language and grammar commensurate with writing in service user case notes.
- Experience of using IT in clinical practice.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to meet the travel needs of the post, within community nursing teams, the post holder will be required to travel to patients homes.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE Level C+ in English and Maths or Level 2 functional skills in English and Maths or willingness to work towards this.
- Level 2 in health and social care (or equivalent) or willingness to work towards this.
- Care Certificate or willingness to work towards this.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Awareness of accountability issues e.g. confidentiality.
- Awareness of the role of the Healthcare Support Worker.
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Jones
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07773037094
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