Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Support Worker

The closing date is 21 July 2025

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

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Details

Date posted

07 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,625 to £25,674 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

214-UEC-7234920-A

Job locations

Newark Urgent Treatment Centre

Boundary Road

Newark

NG24 4DE


Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please read attached job description and person specification document.

Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please read attached job description and person specification document.

Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills written and oral.
  • Good time management skills.
  • Good customer care skills.

Qualifications

Essential

  • A good standard of general education. English language GCSE Grade C or above.
  • NVQ level 3 or working towards'

Desirable

  • SFH Care Certificate

Other factors

Essential

  • Team player
  • Highly motivated
  • Flexible
  • Enthusiastic
  • Ability to work under pressure

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in a hospital setting.
  • Evidence of working with the public.

Contractual

Essential

  • Full or part-time hours working a variety of shifts over a seven day period
  • Reception cover

Desirable

  • Clean Driving License

Further Training

Desirable

  • Phlebotomy and cannulation
  • ECG recording
  • Catheterisation
  • Point of Care testing
  • Wound management
  • Plaster Application
Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills written and oral.
  • Good time management skills.
  • Good customer care skills.

Qualifications

Essential

  • A good standard of general education. English language GCSE Grade C or above.
  • NVQ level 3 or working towards'

Desirable

  • SFH Care Certificate

Other factors

Essential

  • Team player
  • Highly motivated
  • Flexible
  • Enthusiastic
  • Ability to work under pressure

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in a hospital setting.
  • Evidence of working with the public.

Contractual

Essential

  • Full or part-time hours working a variety of shifts over a seven day period
  • Reception cover

Desirable

  • Clean Driving License

Further Training

Desirable

  • Phlebotomy and cannulation
  • ECG recording
  • Catheterisation
  • Point of Care testing
  • Wound management
  • Plaster Application

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Newark Urgent Treatment Centre

Boundary Road

Newark

NG24 4DE


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Newark Urgent Treatment Centre

Boundary Road

Newark

NG24 4DE


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Charge Nurse

Michael Thomson

michael.thomson2@nhs.net

01636685810

Details

Date posted

07 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,625 to £25,674 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

214-UEC-7234920-A

Job locations

Newark Urgent Treatment Centre

Boundary Road

Newark

NG24 4DE


Supporting documents

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