Clinical Support Worker

Job summary

Are you ready to make a difference in a fast-paced and rewarding environment? Join our Division of Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) as aClinical Support Workerin the Emergency Department at Sherwood Forest Hospitals!

Our Emergency Department is a bustling hub, providing 24-hour emergency care services to our local community, 365 days a year. As a Health Care Support Worker, you'll be at the heart of our team, delivering essential clinical tasks such as cannulation, ECGs, and catheterisation. You'll also provide compassionate care and comfort to our patients, all under the guidance and supervision of our dedicated Registered Nursing team.

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to:

• Perform vital clinical taskslike cannulation, ECGs, and catheterisation.
• Support and comfort patients, ensuring they receive the best possible care.
• Work closely with the Registered Nursing team, learning from their expertise.
• Demonstrate leadershipby carrying out assigned duties effectively.
• Embody the Trust's CARE values and behaviours, serving as a role model for others.

If you're dynamic, enthusiastic, and ready to take on the challenges of a busy Emergency Department, we want to hear from you! Join us and be a part of a team that truly makes a difference every day.

Main duties of the job

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

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.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, 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 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.