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Job summary

Main area
Critical Care
Grade
Band 2
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
275-2411CSW-CC
Employer
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Medway Maritime Hospital
Town
Gillingham
Salary
£23,615 per annum/pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
04/12/2024 23:59

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Medway NHS Foundation Trust logo

Clinical Support Worker - Critical Care

Band 2

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.

Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

Job overview

Clinical Support Worker - Critical Care

Division: Surgery and Anaesthetics

Care Group: Peri-operative & Critical Care

Band: 2

Salary: £23,615 per annum/pro rata

Interview Date:  TBC

We are recruiting for a Clinical Support Worker who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

The successful post holder will be working as part of the Critical Care Team which comprises of a busy 9 bedded Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and 10 bedded High Dependency Unit (HDU). You will learn and develop skills that are fundamental to the Critical Care area with the expectation of rotating within ICU and HDU. We strongly recommend an informal visit/discussion if considering applying. 

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Working for our organisation

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved.  Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a Clinical Support Worker, you will ensure patients receive a high quality of clinical care and a good patient experience.  We have a management team that is both innovative and proactive in ensuring that high quality care is delivered to our patients.

Care Certificate Programme to be completed over a specified 6 months period, if not obtained prior to commencement.

Undertake a range of delegated care duties deliver to deliver agreed plans of care.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of a General Education e.g. GCSE’s or equivalent

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Insight into role and responsibilities of post
  • Understanding the requirements of patient confidentiality
  • Able to describe the importance of delivering high quality care to patients
  • Knowledge of Hospital Systems

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Customer Care Experience
  • Experience working as part of a team

Values Based Question

Essential criteria
  • Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a ‘can do’ attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - BronzeDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - SilverDisability confident employerNHS Rainbow badgeStep into health

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Ancy Padmakumar
Job title
Senior sister - Critical Care
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01634 976376