We are recruiting for a Clinical Support Worker - Critical Care who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients
We have 20 critical care beds and can offer you broad experience in caring for critically ill adults in an innovative, challenging and aspirational workplace. We are committed to advancing nursing practice and our Clinical Nurse Educator provides in-house training and support for clinical and professional development.
Our Values are I nclude, R espect and I mprove. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Examples of some of the responsibilities within the role of Clinical Support Worker:
Washing / dressing patients
Taking patients physiological observations i.e. temperature, pulse, respiration rate, blood pressure, weight, blood sugar levels.
Making beds and cleaning bed spaces
Serving meals and assisting feeding patients
Talking / listening to patients and their relatives.
The post incorporates undertaking a Apprenticeship if you are eligible. To achieve this you will attend apprenticeship workshops on site, consisting of assignments, group work and functional skills exams in Maths and English and observations in the clinical setting.
As a Clinical Support Worker you will be based on the Critical Care Unit and you will provide our patients with the highest standards of care during their stay at the Trust and become a valued member of our team.
You will be required to work: Days, Nights, Weekends and Bank Holidays. If successfully shortlisted you will have to do a role based assessment.
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.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
