Job summary
Employer heading
Medicine Transfer Team
Band 2
Job overview
Patient movement across the QMC medicine Division.
Variety of shifts covering a 7 days these are Long days and twilight shifts
Main duties of the job
Responding urgently to pottering tasks
Ensure patient information is present and correct
Ensure timely and safe transport for patients
Working for our organisation
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Responding urgently to pottering tasks
Ensure patient information is present and correct
Ensure timely and safe transport for patients
Good and clear communication with patients and ward staff
Excellent teamworking and communication across the medicine flow team
Person specification
Communication
Essential criteria
- Ability to use digital programmes and mobile devices to communicate information
- Clear and direct communication using a variety of styles w
- Excellent use of non-verbal communication using body language eye contact and facial expressions to interact and calm patients who may be anxious
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience and in depth knowledge of using various digital platforms and digital devices to the extend of the devices usage
- Previous experience and training in communicating with anxious or confused patients
Teamworking
Essential criteria
- Ability to work within a large dynamic team and contribute to team goals
- Positive thinking approach to problem solving
- Resilience to physically demanding tasks and potentially stressful situations
Desirable criteria
- Problem solving skills with the ability to make changes within the service - prior examples of this to be given
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Reliable, punctual with great professional values and behaviours
- Ability to demonstrate that the candidate has an Empathetic and compassionate personality
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Basic maths and literacy GCSE
- Excellent working knoweldge of sconfidentiality, priviacy and dignity polcies
- Excellent working knowledge of health and safety when manual handling
Desirable criteria
- Further educational studies vocational or academic
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- JenniferWallace
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07812275511
- Additional information
Please e-mail if more detail is needed.
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