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Job overview

Ward 31 is a specialist Outpatient Department at the Freeman Hospital
providing 47 dialysis stations for patients of all needs, the department is
open 6 days a week from 05:00 until 00:00,providing haemodialysis for
patients who attend 3 times weekly for treatment.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our
ward team, to care for patients within this very busy department.

The job of HCA  (dialysis care assistant) entails a variety of duties working with patients, assisting nursing staff, and working with specialist machinery.

• Interview Date Monday, 12 August 2024
• Full & Part Time Hours/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

Main duties of the job

• Contributes to the work of the department by working under direct or indirect supervision of registered practitioners or assistant practitioners.
• Will carry out delegated, repetitive, routine and familiar tasks.
• Will in time develop an awareness of normal parameters concerning patient / client wellbeing and report that which is out with normal parameters to the registered professional
• Will plan and prioritise own and delegated work tasks and activities.
• Will carry out routine elements of assessment to enhance the patient / client journey, following an initial assessment by a registered practitioner.
• Meet basic care needs of patients, washing dressing, assistance with feeding etc.

• When trained and deemed competent undertake clinical activities, using appropriate equipment (these will be activities relevant to speciality) e.g. venepuncture, ECGs,

  ·         When trained and deemed competent following unit guidelines set up, and prepare the haemodialysis machines for use, strip down the dialysis machine and sterilise the machine as per unit guidelines disposing of all equipment as per Trust policy.

  ·  Connection of water treatment facilities and haemodialysis machines within various departments around the hospital.

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 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.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.

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.