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Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit a Health Care Support Worker to join our amazing Paedatric Diabetes team.

Are you motivated and enjoy the challenges of helping to look after children and young people? Do you want to be part of a proactive and dedicated paediatric team and develop your skills? If your answer is yes, then this could be the job for you. Shifts will start at 0800 and are 10 hour shifts. This would be on a Monday and Tuesday each week.

To assist in the management of caseload of approximately 240 children and young people with Type 1 Diabetes, under the supervision of the Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurses.  To carry out routine and additional / extended role duties, when trained and assessed as competent, as instructed by and under the supervision of the registered nurse in charge.

Main duties of the job

What tasks will you do?

• To take a lead role in the efficient and smooth running of Paediatric Diabetes Clinics at Frome Medical Centre and Chippenham Community Hospital.
• Under direction, to undertake additional duties including examples as follows:
• To be competent to do blood glucose and blood ketone checks and interpret readings
• To be competent to teach others to undertake blood glucose and blood ketone checking and insulin injections.
• Under direction from PDSN be able to deliver elements of diabetes education using Goals of Diabetes Education framework.

Working for our organisation

At the RUH we’re proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.