Senior Clinical Support Worker – AMRU / MAU (Internal Only)
This position is open to staff working at the Trust in the ‘ECT Family’ this includes current East Cheshire NHS Trust employees, both NHSP and ECT bank staff, ISS staff and volunteers at the Trust. Unfortunately, we cannot accept applications from applicants not listed within these groups.
East Cheshire NHS Trust is looking to appoint enthusiastic, self‑motivated and compassionate people to join our team of Senior Clinical Support Worker.
We currently have vacancies in:
- Medical Assessment Unit
- Acute Medical Receiving Unit
We are looking for Clinical Support Workers who are capable of working in a busy, challenging and rewarding environment who possess excellent communication skills, can maintain a high degree of confidentiality and are able to work to deadlines, provide excellent personal care to our patients and work as part of team.
Duties will include providing a high standard of care by attending to aspects of patient personal hygiene, maintaining patient tissue integrity and providing pressure area care, recording of observations, liaising with the patient’s families and the general public and supporting your colleagues in providing a positive experience for the patient.
Hours per week: 37.5 Full and part time hours available
Main duties of the job
The role of the Senior Clinical Support Worker is to work under the supervision and direction of a registered nurse to provide the highest possible standard of care for patients and their family’s carers.
The post holder will work under the direction of the Registered nurse to provide and deliver a high standard of compassionate personal care recognising and meeting the specific needs of the patients; they will assist in planning, implementation, and evaluation of individual programmes of care for patients.
Under the direction of the Registered Nurse they will undertake a range of delegated clinical care duties including personal care duties, recording patient observations and changes to patient clinical conditions and carry out clinical care duties in line with the Clinical Competency framework included in appendix 1, under the Senior Clinical Support Worker section.
We welcome applications from Graduate visa holders; it is important that you have a minimum of 6 months before this expires at the start of your employment for training and operational reasons.
Non‑UK or Irish applicants should check their visa and this role’s eligibility for sponsorship before applying. For further information please visit Visas and immigration – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please be advised we are unable to provide Skilled Worker Visa Sponsorship to non‑UK residents.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race or religion. The Trust is a Disability Confident Leader and, as such, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum criteria for the post (outlined in the Person Specification).
Person Specification
Qualifications
- NVQ (National Vocational Qualifications) Level 3 in direct care/customer services
- Care certificate
- Successful completion of the Be AWARE to Care course (or equivalent)
- Level 2 qualification in functional maths and English
Knowledge & Skills
- Demonstrate evidence of Senior Clinical Support Worker competencies (appendix 1)
- Demonstrates good insight into roles and responsibilities of the post
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of principles of effective customer care
- Working as part of a team
- Demonstrates an understanding of the importance of quality care
- Evidence of Band 2 competency
- Be competent in the recording of clinical sign observations
- Good verbal and non‑verbal communication skills; within a variety of settings with patients of varying levels of understanding
- Demonstrates literacy and numeracy skills
- Able to present factual information and refer to questions to others where appropriate
- Able to deal with sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy
- Basic IT skills e.g. e‑mail
- Be competent in venepuncture
- Be competent in cannula insertion
- Be competent in the recordings for ECG
- Blood glucose monitoring
Experience
- Previous experience within healthcare / care setting
- Previous experience in speciality where appropriate e.g. respiratory, dementia
Other Role Requirements
- Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for further role requirements.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
25,760 to 27,476 pounds a year pro rata (subject to job matching)
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