Clinical Support Worker - Children Emergency Department Stevenage
Job description
We are recruiting for a Clinical Support Worker in our Children's Emergency Department who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. Our Values areInclude,Respect andImprove. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond! As a Clinical Support Worker, you will need to be able to provide our patients with the highest standards of care during their stay with us. You will find yourself assisting patients with many aspects of care including monitoring patients' conditions by taking temperatures, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, height and weight. Minor injuries wound care, plastering and assisting with taking bloods/ cannulas being inserted. As a Healthcare Assistant you will be caring and kind, willing to be hands-on with patients within a hospital environment. You will also have the ability to do personal care tasks such as washing, toileting, etc. At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. We run the following hospitals: The Lister Hospital, Stevenage New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City Hertford County, Hertford Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen. Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
