Main area Emergency care Grade NHS AfC: Band 3 Contract Permanent: Long days and Twilights Hours
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Long days & Twilights) Job ref 381-ME-6776642
Site Midland Metropolitan University Hospital Town Smethwick Salary £24,071 - £25,674 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 30/01/2025 23:59
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
1. People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff.
2. Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do.
3. Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives.
We run services from Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, Sandwell Health Campus, City Health Campus, Rowley Regis Community Hospital, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, The Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
We are seeking enthusiastic, driven Emergency Care Technicians with excellent clinical and communication skills to join the Same Day Emergency Care Unit. The SDEC department is an acute area currently based at Midland Metropolitan University Hospital which aims to provide specialised acute services to treat those with varying medical conditions, enabling a significant number of our patients who require emergency care to be managed safely the same day and without the need to admit into hospital.
We are redesigning our services to ensure they are streamlined and consistent with safe, effective patient-centered care. Medicine Same Day Emergency care (MSDEC) forms an integral part of the redesign.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the nursing team ensuring that patients have timely investigations by carrying out specific skills including, but not limited to: cannulation, phlebotomy, collection of blood cultures, and electrocardiogram (ECG).
Supporting all fundamentals of care required, ensuring all patients have a positive experience of the MSDEC process.
The successful candidate will have proven interpersonal skills and acute medicine experience.
You will be able to demonstrate clinical expertise and knowledge to support the team to deliver a high-quality, effective and safe patient journey.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), provides care to our local population from first-class, purpose-built premises. The development of the new hospital plays an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for details on the main duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Key skills – literacy and numeric
* Basic First Aid Certificate
Experience
* Relevant experience working in a hospital or other healthcare environment, in the NHS.
* Experience of working as part of a team
* Working in a healthcare setting or demonstrable experience of undertaking a caring role
As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region, we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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