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NHS AfC: Band 2
Main area: Clinical and Environment Assistant
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 2
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 349-MCH-6916472*
Site: Royal Manchester Children's Hospital
Town: Manchester
Salary: £23,615 Per Annum (Pro Rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: Today at 23:59
Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within our busy Paediatric Critical Care Department in RMCH. We are looking for compassionate and caring clinical and environmental assistants with a passion to be a key part of the patient care journey here at Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) in Paediatric Critical Care. Our Assistants take great pride in the essential work we do supporting our nursing, medical and AHP teams in caring for our patients and families, delivering consistent, high quality, patient focused care.
The role requires the ability to communicate in a sensitive and compassionate manner with children, relatives, and other members of the multi-disciplinary team, respond quickly to demanding situations and work flexibly across a range of day and night shifts over 7 days a week showing commitment to the effective running of the busy unit.
Main duties of the job
With supervision and guidance from the registered nursing team recognising Trust guidelines & protocols, you will support care needs for the child and their family/carers during their stay in PCC. An ability to manage busy and challenging situations and work under pressure is also required.
We look forward to meeting candidates who strive to provide a clean well maintained ward and will take responsibility for building key relationships with domestic supervisors and help monitor the unit and maintain cleanliness of equipment and surrounding areas.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Good standard of general education
* Holds National Care certificate or be willing to undertake and complete within 12 weeks of starting
* Holds Functional Skills Level 1 Maths and English or education equivalent
Desirable criteria
* GCSE English and Maths – Grade C or equivalent
* Holds the skills for health care certificate
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Trust values and behaviours
Training and Experience
Essential criteria
* Understanding/experience of working in a busy customer care environment
Desirable criteria
* Previous experience in a healthcare setting
Skills And Abilities
Essential criteria
* Good communication skills
* Able to work using own initiative
Desirable criteria
* Experience of working in an acute “care” environment, undertaking essential nursing care
Attributes
Essential criteria
* Positive attitude, flexible, honest and trustworthy
* Committed to delivering high standards of patient care
Desirable criteria
* Caring skills
* Second language skills
Others
Essential criteria
* Committed to delivering high standards of patient care
* Friendly, open, empathetic and compassionate
* Able to relate well with patients/clients/ relatives/visitors/colleagues/the multi-disciplinary team and wider Trust staff
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.
Documents to download
* Job Description (PDF, 504.3KB)
* Person Specifications (PDF, 136.4KB)
* Functional Requirement (PDF, 920.2KB)
* Candidate Essential Guide Non Medical (PDF, 1.3MB)
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Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Claire Hughes
Job title: Ward Manager
Email address: claire.hughes@mft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01617018030
Additional information: Sian Carline, PCC Matron
Email: sian.carline@mft.nhs.uk
Telephone: 0161 701 8066
Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Health Care Provider
Industries
Hospitals and Health Care
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