Clinical Support Worker

Job summary

Are you passionate about healthcare and making a real difference in people's lives? Join our dynamic team at Newark Hospital's Urgent Treatment Centre, an essential part of the esteemed Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

As a Clinical Support Worker, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with skilled professionals in a multi-disciplinary environment, delivering high-quality care to a diverse range of patients. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career and contribute to the well-being of the local community.

You'll play a key role in providing exceptional support to our clinical teams, ensuring that patients receive the best care possible during their time of need. This role is both challenging and rewarding, offering the chance to make a real impact in the healthcare field.

Main duties of the job

• To provide direct patient care as a Band 3 Clinical Support Worker under the guidance of the Medical and Nursing team.
• Main roles involve recording observations, ECG recording, Venopuncture, Cannulation, running blood tests.
• Managing patients hygiene needs, patient escort, chaperone and plaster application with some wound management.
• Required to cover some Reception roles if needed as well as stock monitoring and ordering as well as some departmental housekeeping.

About us

Thank you for your interest in this role.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here, and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall, we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients; we also care for you.

Our culture of learning, compassion and taking a person-centred approach are at the roots of our organisation. We would love you to join us.