An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our unique and friendly team!
We are searching for an enthusiastic and flexible Clinical Support Worker to support our Nursing Team across the department with a view to progressing along the Nursing Associate pathway.
We are a busy Paediatric department consisting of an inpatient ward, paediatric assessment unit and day surgery unit and this role would be required to cover across the 24-hour period.
If you are proactive and keen to learn with excellent communication skills, then we would love to hear from you!
Clinical Support
On completion of competency-based training packages the post holder will carry out the following clinical tasks and others if deemed appropriate by the Senior Sister:
• Taking and recording heights and weights
• Taking and recording Temperature, Pulse, Respirations and Blood pressure
• Performing Urinalysis
• Performing Venepuncture and assisting with the insertion of peripheral cannula
• Performing Electrocardiograms (ECGs)
• Prepare child or young person for Theatre
• Take child or young person to Theatre
• Removing peripheral cannula
• All tasks will be carried out in a child-friendly manner using appropriate distraction techniques and the post holder will seek relevant assistance from hospital play specialist and nurses when required
• Ordering and Stocking up of equipment
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital servicesforaround 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence,WorkingTogether and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnelworkingalongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
This advert closes on Monday 14 Oct 2024