Job description

Job responsibilities

• Providing support in some specialist outpatient clinics including undertaking Venepuncture, collecting urine sample and recording height , weight . Full training will be given if you require this.
• Admin and Healthcare duties to ensure smooth running of the service. This includes working with other wards, departments, organisations and external agencies
• Follow up, coordination and recording of various tests and investigations required throughout the patients transplant journey
• Supporting the team admin lead
• Co-ordinating calls from patients or other departments / teams
• Supporting the patient pathway throughout the Transplant Coordinator service

Job Purpose

• To abide by Trust policies and procedures
• To assist the registered nurses (or other healthcare practitioners) in providing high quality patient care
• To undertake a range of delegated clinical duties
• Maintain patients privacy and dignity at all times and provide care in acompassionate and sensitive manner.
• Be an effective part of the multi-disciplinary team contributing to the departmental objectives.
• Continue to develop and maintain competencies to maintain high quality safe care.
• Post holder will be expected to contribute to housekeeping and other ward/ department duties as required, e.g. general tidiness, re-determined stock levels are met and clinical equipment is clean, working and stored correctly.
• Assist with admin & clerical duties as required.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate.The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

• Ability to maintain and improve knowledge, skills and competence to ensure high standards of patient care
• Ability to carry out routine elements of assessment to enhance the patient / client journey, following an initial assessment by a registered practitioner
• Ability to meet basic care needs of patients, washing dressing, assistance with feeding etc.
• Understanding of confidentiality

Desirable

• Understanding of basic food hygiene concepts
• Understanding of basic safeguarding
• An understanding of working in the NHS

Skills

Essential

• Basic IT skills
• Ability to be responsible for own development, identifying training needs, set personal objectives and attend appropriate training as agreed by line manager
• Ability to initiate emergency action when required e.g. Cardiac arrest, Fire

Desirable

• Venepuncture skills

Experience

Essential

• Ability to plan, prioritise own and delegated work tasks and activities.

Desirable

• Experience of caring in a health care setting
• Previous work in a health care setting
• Previous NHS experience

Qualifications

Essential

• Level 3 qualification in Health and Social Care or equivalent level qualification and / or equivalent relevant experience
• GCSEs in English and Maths at Grades 3-1 (or D-E or Level 1 Functional/Key Skills)

Desirable

• GCSEs in English and Maths at Grades 9-4 (or A*-C or Level 2 Functional/Key Skills)

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

How to Apply;

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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