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Apprentice Senior Healthcare Assistant Support Worker Band 3 to work within the Cardiothoracic Department of recovery at the Freeman Hospital. You will be working with a dynamic team of professionals that are very passionate about the recovery of post operative patients.  A passionate person with excellent communication skills that enjoys working within a small team would be ideally suited to join our team. 

Cardiothoracic Recovery is very nurse lead in regards to making clinical decisions to discharge patients back to ward areas or other departments such as coronary care, high dependency therefore a confident, enthusiastic practitioner would be a great addition to our team. 

• Interview Date Tuesday, 17 September 2024
• 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

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Recovering post operative adult patients who have undergone surgery and making clinical decisions with support from team members to discharge their patients to other ward/departments within the freeman hospital. Excellent communication skills with patients and their carers not only with adults but children as well. Basic IT skills for documenting and imputing of patients observations. 

The Band 3 professional will be expected to recover post operative patients following  surgery under local, sedation and general anaesthesia. They will be expected to carry out baseline observations and act upon the observations accordingly with the support from their team.  They will be required to work closely with the team members within recovery and professionals such as cardiologists, anaesthetists and surgeons being able to communicate effectively regarding any issues identified. Good computer skills will be required as paperlite  is now used for patients documents and the recording of records.  Stocking up  checking equipment and general day to day tasks to help the recovery environment run smoothly. Obtaining blood gas samples from Arterial lines and having a basic understanding on what to look out for so that it can be acted upon appropriately, support and teaching can be given within recovery.  Moving and handling will be required as we reposition patients on a regular basis.   

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.