Clinical Support Worker - Children's Community Clinics/CDC

Job summary

Nottingham Children's Hospital has more than 1 vacancy for a Clinical Support Worker within a Community Team who support outpatient clinics at venues across Nottingham/Nottinghamshire and The City Campus, so you must be able to travel easily to the different sites. Whilst you work within the Children's Hospital umbrella you will only be required to attend training on the QMC campus.

The post will be 16 - 22.5 hours per week (to be discussed at interview) with a view to working 3 days Mon - Fri, between the hours of 0830- 1630.

Main duties of the job

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We run clinics within Health Centres and the Children's development centre (on the City Campus) and you will be supporting Paediatricians to carry out essential clinical checks prior to them seeing the Dr, there is also some admin required.

You are supported by a nurse who also works clinically based at one of our clinics at the City Hospital and a nurse manager who works across all sites.

The successful candidate will have previous experience of working with children, preferably within a health care setting. You will also demonstrate a talent for being caring and compassionate, and have excellent communication skills.

For further information/informal visit please contact :

vicki.whitt@nuh.nhs.uk

About us

We are proud of our investment in staff and have a well-established induction and support programme for clinical support workers with the opportunity to compete the national care certificate.

Please be advised that due to the current Covid situation there maybe some changes to some of the induction. But reassured that our working practices have been adapted so as to follow social distancing and other new processes that have been set up to protect staff and families when attending the Clinics.

If you are shortlisted and invited for an interview please be prepared to complete a short literacy and numeracy test as per the hospital requirement prior to your interview and we will not employ anyone who fails the test.