Main area: Endoscopy
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 2
Contract: Permanent, 20 hours a week worked over 2 days within 7 as per needs of service
Hours: Part time - 20 hours per week
Job ref: 382-SACT113-24
Employer: Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Endoscopy Unit Blackpool Teaching Hospitals
Town: Blackpool
Salary: £22,383 per annum, pro rata (Pay Award Pending)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/10/2024 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 2
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage applications from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining a healthy home-life balance.
Job overview
This is a 20-hour post and your weekly shift pattern will include 2 x 7.45 to 18.15 10 hour working days. One of these days will be Thursday and the other day can be negotiated at appointment to fit the needs of the service. You will have a supernumerary period and within this you will be trained in the scope coordinator role. Ideally, the applicant will have some knowledge of the daily running of an Endoscopy Unit, but this is not essential as full training will be given. If you are interested in this post, you are encouraged to visit before application.
This is an exciting time to join Endoscopy, you will be part of a large established team of committed professionals who are proud to deliver the very best care to all patients that need the services of the unit. Successful applicants will become part of an inclusive team with an ethos of civility, kindness and respect.
Main duties of the job
The role will include working closely with the Endoscopy Unit, its staff (MDT) and the Centralised Endoscopy Decontamination Unit. You will coordinate the endoscopes that are needed to fulfil the demands of 6 busy scoping lists with the addition of theatres, ERCP’s and emergencies. You will also be responsible for keeping track of all endoscope repairs, the requesting of necessary loan scopes and the receipt of endoscopes back from repair. You will have excellent communication skills and the ability to problem solve as the demands of the scoping lists change, such as, late cancellations, emergencies, and in-patients. You will be involved in the hanging and removal of endoscopes from the drying cabinets and within this you will need to use the computerised track and trace system. You will also learn how to set scopes up in the endoscopy rooms and take down and perform bedside cleaning to enable optimum patient flow through the scope rooms.
There will also be occasions when you assist the nursing staff in transferring endoscopes and endoscopy equipment to theatres, farage unit and the centralised decontamination unit.
You will also be trained to cross cover the endoscopy porter and stock and environment support role to enable sustainability of service in times of other staff being absent.
Working for our organisation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty-five minute drive from Manchester. The Trust provides services to the 445,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be required to attend in-service training courses as required.
You must be willing to undertake all required mandatory training and any necessary role training as defined by the nursing or centralised decontamination unit managers.
You will be expected to input various data on to the computer on the Unit and utilise the track and tracing system for endoscopes.
You will be expected to attend team meetings and team briefings as required.
Liaise with the decontamination department this may involve transportation of scopes to the decontamination unit or other areas in the hospital.
Some of the duties, in support of the nursing team will include:
* Answering the telephone, relaying messages to the appropriate person.
* Continual close communication with the supervisors in the centralised decontamination unit.
* Filling in and maintaining cleaning records and keeping records of scopes sent for repair.
* Implement a track and trace contingency if the IT systems fail – you will be given full training for this.
* Receive into the unit scopes returning from repair.
* Be responsible for the maintenance records of available scopes to the unit.
* To liaise with unit coordinating sisters to know what scopes are needed on each endoscopy list.
* To problem solve as lists change communicated to you.
* To liaise with stock and environment lead on materials needed.
* Photocopying as required.
Person specification
Qualifications
* English and Maths Qualification
* IT Qualification
Experience & Knowledge
* Experience in organisation and prioritisation of workload
* Ability to work in a pressurised environment
* An enthusiasm to learn
* Previous experience of working in Endoscopy and/or Decontamination
* Previous experience of working in an NHS team
Skills and Abilities
* Ability to communicate effectively in written and spoken English
* A positive attitude to role and others
* Ability to use own initiative
* Ability to prioritise workload within description of role
* Ability to ask for help when needed
* Ability to work with Olympus endoscopy and decontamination equipment
Any invitation to interview will be sent to the email account stated on your application form.
If the role you have applied for requires a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check we will administer this as part of your pre-employment checks.
Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached below as your application will be judged against this.
The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020.
Name: Lynne Butler
Job title: Endoscopy Nurse Manager
Email address: lynne.butler3@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01253 57152
Deputy Endoscopy Nurse Manager: rebecca.duckworth@nhs.net
Deputy Endoscopy Nurse Manager: laura.wyke@nhs.net
Mandy Gibson Admin support: mandy.gibson5@nhs.net Tel No 01253 58753
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