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Clinical Support Worker Higher Level in Northallerton

On-site in Northallerton·Full-time·Added today (last checked 9 Nov)

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Our summary

Salary: £25,760 - £27,476 a year
About £1,840 - £1,940 a month after tax.
Work mode: On-site, Northallerton
Contract: Full-time
Closing date: Apply by Tuesday 17 November

Skills

Nice to have

Patient Care

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is hiring for this role in several places. This vacancy is in Northallerton.

The role

Job summary

The Urgent Treatment Centre is seeking enthusiastic and hardworking Clinical Support Worker's Higher Level to join our team.

Our UTC is busy and dynamic with over 100 patients a day attending for treatment.

Our team is friendly, motivated and committed to providing a high quality, expert emergency service for the patients we treat.

Main duties of the job

Previous experience is working within in a Health Care setting is essential and full orientation and training will be given.

The appointed candidate must successfully undertake a pre-employment Medical and have DBS disclosure details available prior to starting work.

Please see job description for more details

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have come together to form University Hospitals Tees. As a result, post holders may be required to work across sites within both organisations.

Across University Hospitals Tees, our ambition is to be the best place to work, ensuring we have the right staff in the right roles at the right time to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.

We are committed to supporting our staff through an inclusive and supportive working environment, offering health and wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.

We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

Excellent interpersonal, communication and active listening skills. Ability to adopt appropriate styles and methods of communication.
Time-keeping, planning and prioritisation skills.
Basic IT skills to use electronic patient records & other Trust systems.
Analytical and judgement skills to make decisions based on patient / service user interactions and observations and metrics.
Working knowledge of legislation underpinning care provision.
Ability to demonstrate the importance of holistic person-centred care & related procedures.
Understanding of the importance of robust, accurate, clear, timely documentation.
Attention to detail.
Insight into behaviours and skills of a carer and the need for effective teamwork.
Knowledge of Safeguarding.
Understanding work-related boundaries.
Awareness of GDPR and the need for confidentiality

Qualifications & Training

Essential

Numeracy and Literacy Level 2 or Maths & English (English Language or English Literature) GCSE A-C/4-9 or oMaths & English O Level/GCE A-C or Maths & English CSE Grade 1 or NARIC/ENIC which compares the qualification to UK GCSE (https://www.enic-naric.net/)
Care certificate (if you don't hold this certificate, you would be expected to complete this during your first 6 months of employment)
Level 3 vocational qualification or Short courses and completion of competency workbook equivalent to Level 3 in a range of patient and clinical care duties and/or o Equivalent knowledge and experience in a range of clinical care duties equivalent to Level 3. - Theoretical knowledge - Experience of a range of care and related procedures - clinical observations - knowledge of relevant legislation

Experience

Essential

Experience of working in health or social care
Experience of undertaking and recording clinical observations and escalation of changes or findings.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.